Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to thank Mrs. Lowey and Ms. Granger for their leadership on this committee. I want them to know that I appreciate their commitment to doing the appropriations process the way we are supposed to do it. But this day is a recognition of failure, a failure to do our work as those who adopted the Budget Committee report in 1974, as those of us who have served on the Appropriations Committee since 1983, 23 years active on the Appropriations Committee, but still on it but under a waiver. This is an admission of failure. It is a recognition of failure. It is a recognition that the Senate did not do its job. It is a recognition that the White House would not cooperate in getting to 302(b) allocations. I talked to Senator McConnell in January of this year. Leader McConnell and I agreed that we wanted to get the appropriations work done in a fashion that it was intended to be done, considering discretely and individually appropriation bills, considering them on the floor. Now, frankly, we did not do that. We did not do it for time's sake, so that we could do things in a timely fashion. And we considered three omnibus bills, minibuses as we called them, and we sent them to the Senate prior to June 26 of this year, which gave the Senate more time. They had all the time they needed. And because the White House, and, in particular, the acting chief of staff, Mr.…”