Political Quotes

“Let me thank my colleague from Virginia. He is absolutely right. We went through a pretty tough time a month ago when we reached an agreement on the funding levels. It should be a very simple process to get a continuing resolution passed that will extend the government based upon the agreement that was reached just a month ago. The Senator from Virginia is right about our Federal workforce. Our Federal workforce is doing more work with less people. They are subjected to a 2-year pay freeze, which they were subjected to before we had an agreement to deal with the deficit. For the sake of our Federal employees, for the sake of the people who depend upon their service, and for the sake of our economy and for good governance, the passage of what we call a clean continuing resolution that allows us to work out the individual appropriations bills should be beyond any disagreement. I thank the Senator from Virginia for his leadership not only on behalf of Federal employees, but also on behalf of sensible budgeting so we do not have to go through this type of ordeal and put people through this unnecessary anxiety.”