Political Quotes

“it is a familiar headline: ``Congress announces a deal to avoid a shutdown.'' It is currently midday on Wednesday, March 20, and, on Friday at midnight, just the day after tomorrow, the government will run out of funding for more than half of the 12 budget categories, and most of the government's funding is found within this section that will shut down, absent legislation by Congress. We are told that the only way we can avoid a shutdown is to vote for what we expect to be a monstrous spending plan, a bill written in secret by a small handful of appropriators and ultimately given the blessing of the ``Law Firm of Schumer, McConnell, Johnson & Jeffries.'' It should be noted that not one Member of this body has had the opportunity to fully review the legislative text or, in the case of nearly all Members of Congress, to see any of it. We have not seen it. We can't see it. We are not allowed to see it. We don't know much about the particular details of the bill, what will be in it and what won't be in it. But if history is any indicator, as it has been proven to be reliably in the past, there are a few things about the bill of which we can now be certain, even before laying eyes on it. It will, among other things, be full of earmarks, these special- interest giveaways handed out as sweeteners, as if to make the medicine go down. It won't force President Biden to secure the border.…”