Political Quotes

“Let me thank the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee and let me thank the chairperson. I sometimes have a slip of tongue, Mr. Dicks, and call you ``chairman,'' but I thank you very much for this opportunity. I want to just try to give a procedural class here today. The procedural class is that this document is a placeholder. I would hesitate to call it a fake document, but that is what it is. As I left my constituency, the last words I heard were, ``Don't you all shut down the government.'' And I am glad that Mr. Dicks worked hard to submit his amendment in the Rules Committee. It's unfortunate that the wise men and women didn't have a majority. The Republicans would not yield to a thoughtful amendment by Mr. Dicks. But this is a 2-week document. We know how old, and what--many of us have seen a 2-week-old baby. That's what this is: a 2-week document so we can do the right thing. It needs to be very clear that before we left in the 110th Congress, Democrats had already cut $41 billion. Now, many say we didn't have a budget. We had a budget, but we had no compromise, no reconciliation, no fairness, no concern about the American people. Now we have spent 3 months, March 1, doing nothing, and not one bill creates a job. Goldman Sachs, I know that there is a critique on Goldman Sachs, but you can't discount the independent, objective assessment of them saying that in the CR that was passed a week ago 700,000 to 800,000 jobs would be lost.…”