David Price: “If you fast forward to the present, as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) was suggesting, the budget situation is…”

“If you fast forward to the present, as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) was suggesting, the budget situation is actually worse; the objective budget situation is actually worse now than what we faced in 1990. This President Bush, unlike the first President Bush, does not seem inclined to even agree there is a problem. And the congressional leadership is totally disinclined to take this up. So it strikes me as a very dangerous kind of complacency that really, I guess, bespeaks a deterioration of the budget process, but also of leadership to use the budget process to get our fiscal house in order”