Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, just following up a bit on what the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) suggested, what is eventually going to make us successful in the way we budget, in the way we appropriate, in the way that we oversee administration, is the willingness of the Members of Congress, of the House and the Senate, to be more diligent, to have some guts, to have some intestinal fortitude, to make sure we are doing the right thing to best of our ability. Whether you have a 1-year budget or a 2-year budget, whether you have the President sign on to something early on or later on, if Congress wants to be, excuse the expression, lazy and shift more power to the administration, we are going to lose what made this republic great in the first place. Our forefathers, when they wrote this Constitution, gave us a powerful legislative branch and a less powerful executive branch. Biennial budgeting puts this at risk and may diminish us in terms of our effectiveness as a democracy and a republic.”