Political Quotes

“We are showing the American people right now that we live in fantasy land. The bottom line is, the amendment that I and many of my colleagues voted for last night merely restores this bill to the current state of law. It makes it comply with the Budget Control Act. I didn't vote for the Budget Control Act, but it is the law of the land. We can pretend it is not. That is the difference between us and the people in my district. They don't have Monopoly money to play with. They can't pretend that the law isn't the law. They can't pretend that they can invent money in their families. They have to follow the laws. They have to follow their budgets. But I guess that is just not true. This is why Congress has a 9 percent approval rating. The people watching us today, the millions of people watching us--there are maybe several hundred thousand watching us today--are watching promises being made that can't be kept, promises being made that take money out of not this generation but the next generation and the generation following. Again, this is a worthy cause. But the bottom line is, last year, when the majority was in the minority, every single member in the Appropriations Committee voted against funding this program when it left the committee, every single majority member when they were in the minority. I get how this game is being played. I get it. We have to restore fiscal discipline, the same fiscal discipline every family in our districts has.…”