Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, it is no secret to the members of the Committee on Rules that for several terms now I have regularly appeared before it to urge consideration of my proposal which we have called the instant replay, meaning that if on September 30 of every year, the end of the fiscal year, we do not have a budget in place, that automatically on October 1, would go into effect--by instant replay mechanism--last year's budget, or the lowest figure between the House and Senate, whichever is the lowest figure, for the remainder of the term, so that the White House and the Congress could continue to negotiate without the fear of and without the pressure of a threat of or actual shutdown in Government. That is all I ever intended, to prevent a shutdown of our Government. We had the anomally, the sad state of affairs, where in 1990, as our youngster were gathering their military forces in Saudi Arabia--waiting for Desert Storm to occur, in forming Desert Shield--that while they were there, the Government supported the shutdown. That is unacceptable.”