Political Quotes

“The fact is, whether we want to acknowledge it, we have not done anything the whole year. If there is any cause for our having so little time to do so much, it is because we have not done anything up to now. We have not passed any appropriations bills--one. To hear talk about an omnibus bill should cause the hair on everyone's neck to rise. The omnibus bill we had last year was a disaster, in my opinion. I hope we do not do that again. I would rather have a series of continuing resolutions than have this big, ugly piece of legislation that has so many ways of creating mischief. I do appreciate my friend from Mississippi, who has a wealth of experience, having been majority and minority leader of the Senate, but he should acknowledge what he is talking about is pie in the sky. We cannot do that. We do not have time.”