Political Quotes

“later today I will be down on the floor to offer a budget point of order on the highway bill. I have been down here several times over the course of the last several days. I think most in this body--a large majority of people in this body-- have been a part of encouraging us to, in a very bipartisan way, solve the budget problems we have in this country. There were 64 of us--32 on each side of the aisle--who signed a letter to the President encouraging him to really adopt some of the principles that were laid out in Bowles-Simpson. After that, there was a very large number of Senators on both sides of the aisle who signed a letter to the supercommittee asking them to go big and really deal in a serious way with the budget issues, the deficit issues with which our country is dealing. I have been down here multiple times talking about the various oddities in this bill. What is getting ready to happen in this bill is that we are actually, over the next 2 years, going to create a $10 billion to $11 billion deficit. Because of the various gimmickry we use, we are figuring out ways to get around that. One of the budget gimmicks we are using in the bill is that we are going to spend the money over a 2-year period but pay for it over a 10-year period--2 years worth of spending, 10 years worth of revenues.…”