Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, let me just make a few brief comments, and I always appreciate the passion that Mr. Woodall, my distinguished friend and colleague, brings to this discussion. I do want to say what this is. First of all, the rule before the House has both a resolution, which I talked about, which is really the safety net, it establishes the $1.295 trillion for discretionary spending and, in addition, allows us to do IRS enforcement--$400 million is in the resolution--and the census 2020, which is upcoming and which will take thousands and thousands of people to conduct the census in the way that the Framers identified it to be. It also has a budget bill. And I do want to just mention just a few points that relate to what Mr. Woodall said. The major components of the budget are in the budget bill. It provides a top line for discretionary spending, provides allocations to the authorizing committees, provides a revenue floor, enforces all these 302 allocations, and sets new caps for discretionary spending, gives allocations to authorizing committees, all of these things which will match the CBO's baseline, I might add, and enforcement through regular Budget Act points of order. So this does have a budget bill. What we do with the resolution, however, is critically important because it makes sure that we begin this process. I think the thing that we all want to avoid in the greatest possible way is a shutdown.…”