Political Quotes

“let me talk about my concern about this 2- year budget process. I think that the worst thing we could do is allow the executive branch to have any more influence than they have. I mean, they send a budget over to us. Every year we dispose of that budget in one way or the other. If we dispose of it 1 year and we had 2 years, we would have little or no influence over the departments. I was talking to the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Larson) from Connecticut. They used to have a 2-year budget. They have to open their budget up every year and go through the same process they would ordinarily. But the problem with then having influence with the departments, they have no personnel in there, they would have none of the things that they are really interested in in their budget. So what they would be doing, the process things that are so important to the changes that happen, the supplemental appropriation, all of the things that they need to do to make sure that things are operating smoothly would have to be taken care of every year. They would have to open the budget up. And yet all their personnel and things they are really concerned about would be taken care of every year. Our Constitution is clear. We start the process. The Senate would have an inordinate influence because they have no rules over there and they would be able to add to any budget anything they wanted to add.”