Political Quotes

“I rise tonight to join my Democratic colleagues to call for a new direction in our Federal budget priorities. I want to thank my friend Artur Davis from the Budget Committee and the Democratic committee staff for arranging this series of speeches on this very important subject. The Federal budget is much more than a boring government document or irrelevant policy paper. The Federal budget is our Nation's mission statement. The budget is our collective expression of our national priorities, and it reflects the values of our national leadership. Unfortunately, the values of the current national leadership, as reflected in the Federal budget, are a sorry state of affairs. I am very proud that during my first term in this United States House, Congress and the President joined together to move toward balancing the Federal budget for the first time in decades. Democrats and Republicans reached across the partisan aisle and worked together to balance the books for the first time in over a generation. The surpluses generated from the balanced budget were used to pay down the national debt, strengthen the Social Security Trust Fund and to make key investments in essential services like education and health. And we had enough left over to fund cutting-edge research and development that is the gateway to America's economic future and quality of life. Unfortunately, all of that progress was reversed when the current administration took office.…”