Political Quotes

“Madam President, I appreciate Senator Barrasso and his leadership on so many issues in this Senate. It is a sad event that we are now filing an objection to the movement of an appropriations bill because it violates the Budget Act contained in the United States Code. The Budget Act says you shall not move forward with an appropriations bill if you have not first passed the budget. I ask my friend from Wyoming, as an accomplished orthopedic surgeon and physician and from his personal experience in the legislature in his State, does it strike him that when you are in the most serious debt crisis that perhaps the Nation has ever had from a structural, systemic point of view, that we ought to follow the law, we ought to first decide how much money we can afford to spend next year and then allocate that money to the various spending appropriations committees so they can produce a plan that would live within that budget? Is that the commonsense way we should proceed?”