Tim Ryan: “This amendment is breathtaking in its completely overt vindictiveness. Some Members don't like the calls the refs have…”

“This amendment is breathtaking in its completely overt vindictiveness. Some Members don't like the calls the refs have made in games. You can have your opposition and your opinion. Here, we are trying to get the referee fired. We cannot function as a group here if we are going to continue to try to demean and criticize this very group that is trying to help us do our job. As I said a few minutes ago, the Democrats have had a long list of frustrations with the CBO, but did we have the President, the leader of our party, and a significant number of Members of the United States Congress start bad-mouthing the CBO? We did not. We had our complaints, in all fairness, but we think that this group of professionals is essential to how this body functions. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Black), the distinguished chairman of the Budget Committee, if you are not going to just believe Democrats on this issue.”