Political Quotes

“Tonight, the President will once again walk into this Chamber and lay out a vision for how to strengthen America in the years ahead. Properly, part of that vision will include the need to solve our deficit challenge and address the looming sequester. That dangerous set of automatic and indiscriminate spending cuts is due to take effect in just under 3 weeks. But instead of working with Democrats to avert the sequester through a big and balanced solution-- or, frankly, even a short-term balanced proposal--a growing number of House Republicans are, instead, engaged in a dangerous blame game. Majority Leader Cantor joined in that this weekend, claiming that the President is the one who proposed the sequester in the first place. What he didn't say was, of course, the Republicans offered a piece of legislation called. The sequester was an integral part of their policy proposal. In fact, the sequester was part of a bipartisan agreement instigated by Republicans, which we supported. Let us not forget, Mr. Speaker, that it was Republican hostage taking of the debt limit in 2011 that brought about the Budget Control Act, which created the sequester. Speaker Boehner himself, after the deal creating the sequester was struck, said about the Budget Control Act, which included the sequester which faces us at the end of this month: When you look at this final agreement that we came to with the White House, I got 98 percent of what I wanted.…”