Political Quotes

“I thank Senator Portman for his comments and for his leadership on the Budget Committee. We have three fabulous new members on the Budget Committee in Senator Toomey, Senator Portman, and Senator Ron Johnson, who are with us and will share their perspectives as new members on the Budget Committee. At a time of fiscal crisis, as Senator Portman has described, it is very important the leadership of America speak honestly to the American people about the challenges we face and how we plan to go about fixing them. That is right. That is fair. That is just. It is wrong, it is unfair, and unjust to spin plans, to misrepresent the impact of policies in a way that confuses the American people and our colleagues in Washington about what is going on. So our colleagues who are here understand the numbers. They are going to make some very good points. I will just say, as a member of the committee and the ranking Republican, I am disappointed the budget does virtually nothing to change the debt trajectory we are on from the agreement we had last year and, in the course of it it raises taxes considerably and raises spending considerably, although the Budget Director was so reluctant yesterday to acknowledge it raises spending. But it does raise spending in any fair and objective analysis of the situation we are in today with the current trajectory in the Budget Control Act we agreed to last year.…”