David Minge: “those of us on the Committee on the Budget have worked on this budget resolution, and although there is partisanship in…”

“those of us on the Committee on the Budget have worked on this budget resolution, and although there is partisanship in some areas, I think that many of us feel that we have had and would like to have a good working relationship with the chairman of the committee, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Kasich], and with the other Members who have spoken. I certainly sense from their comments in other contexts that they too feel we should be working on a bipartisan basis to the maximum extent possible. Now, the comments earlier this afternoon, I think, sort of missed the thrust of what we are really debating. The statements were essentially made ``people good, government bad.'' We are not talking about ``people good, government bad''; we are talking about what we need to do to ensure that we balance the budget. What do we need to do to make sure that the tax cuts do not balloon out of the channel that we are trying to construct and flood our efforts or snuff out our efforts to balance the budget. And all that is being suggested is that we in the House side should accede to the Senate in this respect. I do not believe that the Senate was dominated by radical liberals in the passage of the budget resolution. The Senate has looked at this and has simply said, let us make sure that on a 10-year basis the tax cuts do not exceed $250 billion.”