"I remain committed to enacting comprehensive reform that improves our budget and appropriations process."
"The budget process must be broken because we have only done it four times since 1974."
"A majority of federal spending is currently running on autopilot without limit or approval; it is exactly the opposite of what our Constitution prescribes."
"Democrats did not produce a budget resolution last year, and they will not do a budget resolution this year."
"But I want to read the responsibility of this Committee as on our website."
"It reflects our value system, and yet we are not even going to pass a budget."
"The inability to complete the most basic part of the congressional budget process is telling of a much larger problem."
"I hope that my colleagues will be as ever critical of the fact that we have not produced a budget as they are about the President's budget."
"I want them to have the best training, the best intelligence, and the best equipment in order to overwhelm any enemy at any time on any battlefield."
"the Constitution allows Congress to tax."
"the Democrats insult the President's budget to no end without offering their own budget, as they are required to do by law."