Political Quotes

Mr. President, it has been asserted this week that under section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act, the chair of the Budget Committee has the authority to instruct the Congressional Budget Office, known as CBO, and the Joint Committee on…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to use a visual aid. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

What Republicans are attempting to do is upend decades of precedent and trample on the laws that govern how Congress budgets.

Madam President, what we don't like is $37 trillion in new debt hoisted on the next generation. This is throwing fiscal responsibility overboard to the bottom of the sea. We have never had a more fiscally irresponsible bill on the floor of…