Political Quotes

“as to being weary, I feel great. I have never felt better. I have been wanting to do this for, like, a long time, and our ship is about in. So I am a very happy Budget chair. As to what we are talking about right now, we are not overruling the Parliamentarian because she said it was up to the Budget chairman to set the baseline. The Chair made a decision that was right. The budget resolution gives me the authority--that we all passed--to do this. In 2008, Senator Conrad changed the baseline to accommodate the farm bill, and the Republican former chairman, Judd Gregg, said: The chairman of the Budget Committee declared the baseline under a new budget. The Budget chairman has a right to do that. That is what I am doing. In 2022, Senator Sanders directed CBO to write a new scoring rule changing the baseline to get Head Start money into the budget. So this has been done. In 2012, in a bipartisan fashion, as the Bush tax cuts were about to expire, they extended them using current policy. Back home: What I am trying to do--and I am very happy about it--is make sure the tax cuts don't expire 10 years from now. I want you to be able to go to bed tonight and wake up tomorrow knowing the tax cuts you have today are permanent, unless one day my Democratic colleagues change it through reconciliation. So if you are for open borders, this bill is your worst nightmare because we control the border.”