Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we were within one vote of bipartisan legislation to help constrain the growth in spending and allow for growth but not quite as much. But Senator Pryor's amendment is absolutely the wrong thing. It is a budget-busting amendment. It allows the Congress or the appropriating committees to spend $62 billion more than the present budget allows. It busts the budget. Second, it instructs the deficit commission to propose tax increases and entitlement cuts to fund increases in discretionary spending. That is not what the commission is supposed to be about. It is to try to get our entitlements back on sound footing, not to create money to spend on a new program. I urge colleagues to vote no. It is not the right thing to do. I make a budget point of order that the pending amendment contains matters within the jurisdiction of the Committee on the Budget. Therefore, I raise a point of order against the amendment under section 306 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arkansas.”