Willie Hefner: “somebody said that everything had been said but everybody has not said it yet. I just could not let this pass without a…”

“somebody said that everything had been said but everybody has not said it yet. I just could not let this pass without a couple of comments, especially to my distinguished leader of the Committee on Appropriations, talking about how terrible it was that that old terrible Senate would get over there and filibuster a bill. One of the Presidential candidates that is out there running is bragging about how last year he spent a whole year killing the President's heath care plan, and a lot of that so-called health care plan is in the Republican budget. When we are being told in the negotiations, and I just watched on television when the chairman of the Republican Committee on the Budget said he would like to work with Democrats and come up with maybe 100 Democrats and 100 or so Republicans and put together a budget, and then the majority leader on the House floor says we do not have to negotiate with the Senate, we do not have to negotiate with the White House, we do not even have to negotiate with the Democrats. We can handle this thing because we are running this place. And my colleagues on the other side talk about a President that is not cooperating with trying to put together a budget?”