Political Quotes

“It seems these days that the ``all news'' channels and the semi- pseudo-news channels are preoccupied with a new format of ``All Monica, All the Time,'' and I do not suppose that there is any way to get them to refocus on anything else like this mess. But I think it is worth noting the mess that we are in and how we got here. I serve on the Committee on the Budget and the way this process is supposed to work is that the Committee on the Budget is supposed to produce a timely budget resolution which this House is to adopt and the Senate is to adopt. That budget provides the format around which our Committee on Appropriations can approve the 13 appropriation bills and avoid a government shutdown. Mr. Speaker, there is only one problem. For the first time I guess in the history of the Budget Act, certainly in recent memory, there is no budget. Now, that is the Republican leadership. It is not a matter, as the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations indicated, of trying to cast blame everywhere. Blame does not belong everywhere. It just belongs one place. Right up here with the Republican leadership.”