Political Quotes

“It is time for the United States Senate to act. The Democrats in the United States Senate, the Democrat leadership in the United States Senate, have failed the American people. Last year when the Democrats controlled the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House, their leadership failed to adopt a budget. In fact, for the first time since adopting the Budget Act of 1974, the House of Representatives failed to pass a budget. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid left our country in a mess. Today, we are operating without a long-term spending plan. It must stop. Earlier this year, a new majority came in to the House of Representatives; and under the leadership of John Boehner, this new majority adopted a long-term spending plan that would outline the priorities of our government through September 30 of this year. In this very Chamber, we stayed up late at night for four nights in a row. We debated and we hammered out a long-term spending plan. That plan included the largest cut in spending in American history. {time} 1750 We defunded Planned Parenthood, we defunded NPR, we defunded ObamaCare. We placed significant restraints on regulatory agencies that have gone out of control, such as the EPA. And then the bill moved down to the Senate, and the Senate has failed to act. Since then, in order to give them more time, we have granted two budget extensions, one for 2 weeks and then earlier this week we extended it for 3 more weeks.…”