Political Quotes

“No question about it. It does not make me comfortable to point fingers, but there is no getting around the fact that there is one person on this planet who can call up a bill before this Senate; that is, the majority leader of the Senate. He has not brought up the defense bill. We also do not have a budget resolution. Again, our friends in the House, the Republicans in the House, under Speaker Boehner, have during the 2 years of their stewardship brought budget resolutions to the floor, passed them, sent them over here, only to be ignored. The President has submitted budgets--did not get a single vote in the House of Representatives, did not get a single vote when we called it up as sort of a test vote here in the Senate. But this Senate, under the leadership of the Democratic majority, has not followed the statute that says you bring a budget resolution up every year--has not done it. We are into our fourth year now. Beyond that, they do not have a budget deficit reduction plan. It is one thing to have a resolution that could say anything, but what the American people need, what our future generations are crying out for is a plan to reduce this debt. I look forward to and hope to see the day when my friend from Alabama is chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.…”