Political Quotes

“You know, I listened to my friend from Georgia, and Lord Almighty, do I agree with him. We should have all that information available to us on dynamic scoring, including--and I assume the gentleman will support my amendment--to correct what must have been a mistake in the Republican majority's bill on page 3. Because knowing my friend's commitment to full information available to the public and Members of Congress, I can't imagine line 16 got it right. It must have been a typo because it says here, yes, dynamic scoring by CBO, except--except the Committee on Appropriations of each house. Think about what that means, Mr. Chairman. Every single appropriations bill, the entire funding of the Federal Government, is exempted. I thought my friends wanted full disclosure. I thought they wanted full information. I heard my friend talk about the parallel with the medical profession. No doctor wants to be deprived of key information when making a key decision about a patient, a client. It could be life-and- death. Well, it is no less than here in the House of Representatives. Mr. Chairman, I would say that in response to my friend from Georgia, I have a simple but important amendment to ensure that the broader economic analysis required by the bill is applied equally to all congressional actions. The bill, as currently drafted, as I said, it exempts all appropriations bills.…”