Political Quotes

“Last year, as the gentleman knows, we were working under a 2-year budget agreement. Typically, we don't have a 2- year budget agreement. You bring one budget, and that is the budget for that year. For fiscal year 2012, the House passed a budget. In our majority, we passed a budget to establish those numbers to then start the appropriations process. In 2013, we passed through the House a budget to establish the 2013 budget numbers to work off of. In 2014, we passed a budget through the House to establish the budget for that fiscal year. In 2015, we passed a budget through the House to establish a budget for that year. In 2016, we actually got an agreement, both between the House and the Senate, and passed the budget, of course, through the House and the Senate. In fiscal year 2017, we passed a budget through the House and the Senate and got a full agreement to do an appropriations process. In fiscal year 2018, as the gentleman knows, we actually agreed to a 2-year budget agreement to not only set the fiscal year numbers for 1 year, but for 2 years, which was tremendously helpful in making sure that our Nation's defense, which many times had been used as bargaining chips for other budget negotiations, we took that off the table. We made sure our men and women in uniform had the certainty of a 2-year budget agreement, which doesn't happen often. Frankly, it should happen more often, and we should strive toward that, so we achieved that.…”