Political Quotes

“everyone is pleased that the budget agreement has been reached between the White House and the Congress, and that does call for applause across the Nation, but there still looms the possibility of a shutdown in Government, I hasten to say, and that kind of shutdown can do more to unravel the budget agreement that we have reached than any other single event that I can conceive at this stage of the budget proceedings. Now, I have been trying for almost 10 years now to convince the Congress that we ought to have in place a permanent solution to the possibility of a Government shutdown; namely, that at the end of the fiscal year, September 30, if the appropriations process has not been completed, those bills that have not yet been finally formulated would simply turn over the next day and adopt last year's instant replay type of figures so that we would have last year's budget go into effect until a new budget can be prepared and adopted. This instant replay would prevent a Government shutdown.”