Political Quotes

“let me just say, that we are in a time of war and the President called for unity, and in that spirit, four of us, the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Moore), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Stenholm), the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Matheson) and myself, went to the Committee on Rules last night and asked that this amendment be made in order. Concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2003, we used their numbers, the Republican numbers. We offered this using their numbers. We offered to extend the debt ceiling till the end of this fiscal year without any strings attached save one, that was that we would be able to review the numbers in August when the CBO numbers come out again to see if we are on the right track and what they say today is actually coming to fact and coming to fruition. We were denied that. That is a plan. This is a budget that we tried to offer last night. Not in order. People watching may wonder, why is all this arguing going on. I want to tell them. Only the majority can make a legislative body bipartisan. The minority cannot do that. We are like a jackrabbit in a hailstorm, all we can do is just hunker down and take it, and if my colleagues do not want to be bipartisan, when we offer a budget based on their numbers, offering to extend the debt ceiling, without the approval really of our leadership and they turn us down and then come here today and say there is no plan, we do not have plan. Some of us did, I tell my friends.…”