This is a matter of giving Congress a deadline when they have to act and do something and cannot just sit back and say status quo will work.
But they have found way--and not to go pick on California because their folks are not here to be able to defend themselves.
I believe Congress will always expand the debt ceiling.
Congress only acts when it has a deadline.
We have to avoid the constant fear of a government shutdown.
What happens if you get to the end, and then you tip over, and you have a government shutdown? He laughed. He said, 'We have a new election ...
Where we are right now in budgeting, I am not sure it is how do you tie the hands of Congress. It is how do you untie the hands of Congress ...
I would not exactly pull California as a model on efficiency in spending.
I have a bill called the Government Shutdown Prevention Act.
I have proposed several areas to be able to get on top of this.
It has been one of the areas that I try to push a lot of people that I talk to, to say it is the creeping element in the budget that no one ...