Political Quotes

“I yield myself 30 seconds to note that this resolution is precisely about working together. This resolution is about working to get a platform from the President from which we can conduct bipartisan budget negotiations. If we truly want to move in that direction, we need a substantive balanced budget, one that does not include triggers, one that does not include a $69 billion deficit in the year 2002, one that does not increase the deficit $24 billion in 1998. That is all we seek. We lay out criteria that will give us this platform, and we apply the exact same standards to this House that we ask the President to abide by.”