Political Quotes

“I want to thank my friend, Mr. Woodall, for yielding me the time. I want to urge support for the rule and the underlying legislation. I would be the first to tell you that this budget is not a perfect budget--no budget is actually perfect--but it is a good budget. There are a couple of issues that do concern me, as I addressed Mr. Ryan last night; and we are worried that we haven't dealt with the wildfire issue to my satisfaction, which disrupts the appropriating process within Interior, but he assured me that he recognized that was a problem, and we are going to continue to work on it. I actually am going to vote for Mr. Woodall's budget when I have the opportunity to do that. It is the most conservative approach on the floor, and I appreciate that. I think we ought to stop and remember that without Paul Ryan, we wouldn't have the choices in front of us today. The United States Senate has chosen not to have a budget once again this year, something that it frequently does. And with all due respect to my friends who do have a budget--and I am pleased that they do--in 2010, when they were actually in the majority, they didn't present a budget to this body, either. It is Paul Ryan that has forced us to confront the fiscal crisis that is facing the country and has actually put something on the table to deal with it. Now, you don't have to agree with everything in it, but it has a lot of virtues to it.…”