David Minge: “I would like to start out by echoing the comments of our colleagues from Texas in terms of the timing. I serve on the…”

“I would like to start out by echoing the comments of our colleagues from Texas in terms of the timing. I serve on the Committee on the Budget. We do not yet have even the beginnings of a budget resolution, and that is the primary task of the committee on which I serve. Indeed, the chairman of that committee, our colleague, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Kasich), has written a letter to the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means expressing his concern about bringing up legislation dealing with tax reductions prior to a budget. This is not a situation where one party is trashing the other party. This is a situation where even the Republicans recognize that the tax cut proposal ought to follow the development of a budget. So when the Chair, the Republican Chair of the Committee on the Budget is saying to the Republican Chair of the Committee on Ways and Means, let us do this in a logical process, just like any business organization would do. I think that is an admonition that we ought to take seriously.”