Andrea Joy Campbell: “To pass a continuing resolution is to continue the business as usual. It was in this vein that I made my reference to…”

“To pass a continuing resolution is to continue the business as usual. It was in this vein that I made my reference to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, President Reagan. What happened in those years was a substantial amount of the time that he was in office, certainly in his first term, was governed by continuing resolution. That postponed the necessity and the eventual achievement of a balance. The continuing resolution, there are several possibilities we are speaking about, but the essence of it is we postpone the hard choice, keep a present level of funding, until we get to where we want to be. So that could be continuing forever. So the first and most important answer to the gentleman from Florida's question is that a continuing resolution constitutes business as usual, with the assumptions that will eventually get to that which has not yet been resolved, and that is what I think we must say no to.”