Political Quotes

“no more Government shutdowns. That seems like a silly warning in the middle of the summer, when the end of the fiscal year still is 2 months ahead of us. The fiscal year, as everyone knows, for the Congress of the United States, for the Government of the United States, ends on September 30. If indeed there be no budget enacted by that date, then the next day the Government has to shut down, unless one of two things could occur: One, a full budget would be passed in the last hours so that a new budget would be in place on the first day of the new fiscal year, October 1; or the Congress, in its wisdom, along with an agreement from the White House to issue a temporary funding stream to allow the negotiators more time to bring about a full budget, would enter into a continuing resolution, a temporary funding mechanism, from October 1, to, let us say, November 1, giving another month to the negotiators to bring about what we all hope would be the case, a full budget for the next fiscal year.”