Max Baucus: “I believe we should have pay-go principles in the Senate. I hope the Budget Committee adopts pay-go. I think it would be…”

“I believe we should have pay-go principles in the Senate. I hope the Budget Committee adopts pay-go. I think it would be a dereliction of duty not to. I also support his view on this amendment. For the last 10, 15 minutes I have heard a lot of complaints against the Clinton administration, against Democrats, how they have not really helped special education. One can use that argument and point the finger, playing one party against the other. I have all kinds of data that resoundingly refute the allegations made by the chairman of the committee. It is just not accurate. But I will not get into that. That is not why we are here. We are not here to blame and say who is doing a better job, Republicans or Democrats. People back home don't care two hoots about that. They care about whether we are doing our job as a body. I submit that we are not doing our job with respect to providing the dollars for special education.”