Political Quotes

“the debate and eventual voting on the Big Beautiful Bill has begun. Hallelujah. It has taken a while for us to get here, but we are going to have a debate worthy of a great country. We will have what they think and what we think, and we are going to vote on this bill in the coming days. I am excited about that. I have worked a long time with my colleagues to get to where we are today. So, to the American people, the debate is beginning right now regarding the Big Beautiful Bill. I will tell you why that is good news for you, but let me take a little bit of time to talk about current policy versus current law. I know everybody is on the edge of their seat at home, but here is what I would tell you about numbers and Budget chairmen. I am not the first Budget chairmen. There have been those who came before me. In 2008, Chairman Kent Conrad--a really nice guy from North Dakota--used a new baseline in the budget so he could get the farm bill in the budget. Judd Gregg--a really smart guy, a former Budget chairman--said: The chairman of the Budget Committee declared the new baseline under a new budget. . . . The Budget chairman has a right to do that. That is what I am doing. I am setting the numbers. The Parliamentarian said that is my job as Budget chairman. The resolution we are operating under to get us here--we voted to make that the case. So we are not doing anything sneaky. We actually voted to give me the authority to do this, and it passed.”