We must fulfill the requirements of the budget resolution.

I am obliged to make clear that the reconciliation bill now called for must be largely consistent with the Bipartisan Budget Summit Agreement.

I don't feel the American people gave the back of the hand to the budget agreement.

We go on to the next event -- and stay with it.

The role assigned to judges in our system is to interpret the Constitution and lesser laws, and not to make them.

The Constitution is not just a symbol but a living idea, the world's greatest experiment in freedom and self-government.

We know exactly where and exactly when our modern history began.

This is the only device one has for making something happen.

I expressed my appreciation to the Speaker, the majority leader in the Senate, the majority leader in the House.

It is time for the Congress to act responsibly on a budget resolution -- not time for business as usual.

I simply cannot approve H.J. Res. 660.