Political Quotes

“I am amazed that I am hearing talk over here about where is the Republican plan to get out of the predicament that we are in. The obvious question is, where is the Democrat plan? Where has it been? Where is the budget? I sit on the Committee on the Budget. The Democrats did not have a budget in committee, they did not have a budget on this House Floor, and they have the nerve to come down here and say, where is our plan? We put a budget together. We put a budget on this floor. We passed it on this floor. We have a plan. They may disagree with it, but they did not have the courage to put a budget on the floor and have an honest debate about it and have an honest vote about it. Let me tell my colleagues what the plan would look like if we had one. It would be all about more spending, and they know that. I know they do not like tax cuts, but what they wanted to do with that money is they wanted to spend it. I have not been here all that long, this is only my fourth year, but each and every single time that we have had an appropriation bill on this floor, if we did not all agree, and on many we do, but when we did not agree, what was the objection on their side? It was always that it does not spend enough. Well, let me tell my colleagues, we cannot spend our way into a deficit unless we are spending too much. And the Democrat plan, that I must infer, since they will not put one on the table, can only be that they want to spend even more money.”