Political Quotes

“on the year-end negotiations, they are making headway--that is good--but many issues still remain to be resolved. We need to provide funding for community health centers, CHIP, and areas that have been hit by disasters. We need to pass a bipartisan deal to pair the Dream Act with border security and pass a budget deal that fully funds both our national security and our economic security, in the common parlance known as ``parity.'' If we don't lift the spending caps for defense and also urgent domestic priorities--jobs, the economy--both will come under the specter of sequestration. Lifting those spending caps in equal measure has been the basis of successful budget agreements going back several years. There has been parity between defense and nondefense for the last three budget negotiations. That is how it ought to stay. That is what brought us to good agreements. That is what averted shutdowns. Unfortunately, it appears that the Freedom Caucus in the House, which doesn't represent the mainstream of America or even the mainstream of Republicans, is trying to derail another successful parity agreement. Unfortunately, Speaker Ryan, as he is doing far too often, to the detriment of the country and his party, is just following its lead.…”