Angie Craig: “I have made statistical statements. When I prepared this today, I double-checked them, to make sure I was accurate, with…”

“I have made statistical statements. When I prepared this today, I double-checked them, to make sure I was accurate, with the Congressional Quarterly Almanac so the Record would be replete. If I am not accurate, or if I have misspoken in some of these statements, again, I stand to be corrected. I was simply comparing the years of 1986, a Republican-controlled Senate, and 1987, a Democrat-controlled Senate, when you were the majority leader--recognizing that in both of those years major budget battles ensued and we bundled tremendously in those years individual appropriations bills--in fact, in a considerably worse way than we are actually doing this year. I thought that was a reasonable thing to discuss on the floor.”