Political Quotes

“The law is specific, and the need is there whether we had a law or not. The law doesn't require families to have budgets, but families who are smartly managing their money have budgets. Businesses have budgets. No law requires them to have budgets, but it is because it is the only way to manage your money. It is an unacceptable situation in which we find ourselves. Let me ask the Senator, I want to try to boil it down to the nub, why we have not done it, why the majority in the Senate has not proceeded with a budget. Let me just say that a budget is considered so important that, unlike other legislation, it can be passed with a simple majority. It cannot be filibustered. It has priority process to be moved rapidly on the floor. It cannot be blocked. The goal is that you could pass a budget. Even a party, if they wanted to do it on a straight party-line basis, with over 50 votes could pass a budget. I am trying to focus on whether there is something broken about the Senate. Is there something broken that causes us not to be effective? Is there something broken in the way we operate that would have kept the Budget Committee from bringing a budget forward and voting on it in committee and passing it out of committee? They did that last year. Is there any reason the Senator can think of, of a substantive nature, that would have blocked that?”