Political Quotes

“you will recall that two years ago this House failed to adopt a concurrent budget resolution. It was the first time in the 26-year history of the Budget Act that Congress failed to adopt a budget. It disrupted the appropriations process and made it much more difficult for the entire House to complete any of its legislative business in an orderly way. Then again last year we adopted a budget but it was an unrealistic budget. It was shot full of holes with gimmicks and blue smoke and mirrors. It treated things like the decennial census, that has been going on since 1790, as an emergency. We did not complete action on the appropriations bills until well after the fiscal year had begun. We failed the American people again. Now again this budget resolution is equally unrealistic. It is so filled with assumptions that we know will not be met that it is not fair to the American people to even propose it, never mind pass it, on the floor of the House. We know it is not a real budget. We know that what this is is not serious legislation, but political expediency.”