Political Quotes

“I want to thank the chairman of the Budget Committee for the good, hard work that his committee did for bringing this bill to the floor. Ultimately, Mr. Speaker, this is something that we have been talking about doing for a long time, but now we have the opportunity to have a vote on the House floor that will send a bill to President Obama's desk that actually guts ObamaCare and defunds Planned Parenthood. This is something very important to people all across the country. But this is something that allows us through the reconciliation process, which is a rare opportunity. There have been a lot of really good bills that this House has passed to address problems, whether it is getting the economy back on track, whether it is pushing back on so many of the radical agenda items, through regulatory actions, through executive actions that this President has done to try to circumvent the Constitution and Congress, and they go over to the Senate, and Senate Democrats filibuster the bill. And because of their archaic rules that require 60 votes just to bring a bill up, so many of those bills don't even come up for debate, Mr. Speaker. So the budget process of reconciliation gives us one opportunity a year, if we are able to come together and agree on a budget, which this House and Senate did. We came to agreement, in fact, on a budget that gets to balance in the 10-year window for the first time since 2002.…”