Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I think I share your frustration with the process that I think we probably all on this Committee feel.

the budget process has become meaningless, and I am sick of it.

I guess as the only Democrat present today I am standing in for our Ranking Member, and I would like to make a brief opening statement, and ...

The danger, of course, is that the big, powerful groups that throw their weight around here would try to co-opt that process so that it once...