Political Quotes

“First of all, I am happy to hear that our Democratic colleagues agree to allow us to come back next week and not go on a recess. It is important that we start work on the single greatest issue, the single most important issue facing this Nation--our debt and deficit issue. A couple of minutes ago, I objected to what the leadership wanted to move to, which was an important debate on Libya, but it is not addressing what we need to address. The fact is that in the Senate this year--we have been here 6 months, and we have not passed a budget. As a matter of fact, we have not passed a budget in the Senate for over 2 years. We have missed all of the budget deadlines. We should have passed a budget by April 15. Appropriations bills should have been completed by June 10. We are simply not addressing the single greatest issue facing this country--that we are bankrupting America. Only six bills have been passed in the Senate that have actually become law. Three of those were cleaning up last year's business. They were continuing resolutions funding the government, when what should have happened a year ago is those bills should have already been passed. President Obama's budget that he sent over here in January was so unserious that actually it lost 0 to 97 in the Senate. Not a single Democratic Senator voted for that budget. We have an awful lot of work to do. Our budget deficit this year--the highest estimate I have heard is about $1.65 trillion.…”