NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “In all sincerity, I would say to the gentlewoman from New York, it is extremely distressing in a free society when the…”

“In all sincerity, I would say to the gentlewoman from New York, it is extremely distressing in a free society when the parameters of debate are agreed to, to have one party--no, I do not mean Republican and Democrat--but I mean one party to the agreement seem to be perhaps either confused or deliberately disingenuous as to the parameters or the terms of debate. That is what I feel is so difficult. Certainly the gentlewoman offered, in a very, I think, understated way, a very appealing argument in some ways. The one that is fundamentally flawed, because it fails to acknowledge the culpability, or let me rephrase that, the responsibility of the executive branch to recognize that yes, there is a new majority, and though there may be disagreements, there is also a responsibility for the Executive to sign appropriation bills to keep people at work. The problem at which we are at loggerheads comes from the fact that we just do not seem to get a consistent answer from the executive branch.”