Political Quotes

“I offer for the Record the Budget Committee's cost estimate of S. 2804, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017. The reported measure provides $37.5 billion in discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2017, which will result in new outlays of $21.9 billion. When outlays from prior-year budget authority are taken into account, nonemergency discretionary outlays for the bill will total $37.6 billion. The reported bill matches its section 302(b) allocation for budget authority for both the security and nonsecurity categories and is below the 302(b) allocation for outlays by $1 million. The bill is not subject to any budget points of order. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record the table displaying the Budget Committee scoring of the bill. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: S.…”