Lloyd Bentsen: “the hottest play on Broadway is a play about a washed-up producer and his erstwhile accountant who try to sell a flop to…”

“the hottest play on Broadway is a play about a washed-up producer and his erstwhile accountant who try to sell a flop to widows, and instead of selling 100 percent they sell 1,000 percent, and when it goes under, they will take the rest. Mr. Speaker, the hottest play in Washington apparently is the budget resolution that is before us today, and is going back to the Committee on the Budget, and will come back tomorrow, where we claim that we are going to have a tax cut that is contained and we are going to contain spending at a certain amount, as if all around the Capitol and even on the floor today and even over at the White House today when funding issues come up, they say, Do not worry, we will put more education money in later. Do not worry, we will put more money in for FEMA later. Do not worry, we will fund the NSF, the National Science Foundation, later. Do not worry, if my colleagues do not think the tax cut is big enough, we will take care of that later. What we have produced here is a flop where we are selling the American people 1,000 percent of the shares. It is a total fraud that is being committed through this budget. It is unrealistic, and at the end of the day what is going to happen is they are going to go to the appropriators and they are going to say, Let us waive the Budget Act and let us go ahead.…”