Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am deeply concerned by our growing financial crisis and really deeply angered by the failure of this Senate to take any meaningful steps to address it. I am going to announce steps I will take to try to force this Senate to do its job since our Democratic leaders seem determined to prevent the people's work from being done. As ranking member of the Budget Committee, I see quite plainly that the process the statutory act requires is not being followed at a time in which we have never faced a greater systemic long-term debt crisis as we face today. The act calls for a budget to be produced by April 15, the Budget Committee to have meetings by April 1, and here we are toward the end of May, about to recess, and we have not even had a hearing in the Budget Committee on the markup of a budget. Budgets, of course, are able to be passed by a simple majority in the Senate, and they have given the majority party in the Senate the opportunity--really the responsibility--to set forth their vision about the financial future of America, to set forth their priorities, how they would conduct the people's business. We know the House of Representatives met that deadline. They passed a historic budget. But the Senate has not done so. All we have seen from Majority Leader Reid are political games, cynical games, distractions and gimmicks to avoid confronting the fiscal nightmare we are now facing.…”