Speech #1050021137

I hope the President could support a proposal which eliminates the threat of a Government shutdown as we work toward getting a budget agreement. Basically. it locks in place spending at last years appropriation levels until we do it. and not shut down the Federal Government. 1 hope the President will reconsider that and endorse this proposal which I believe will be attached to the supplemental. and see that we do not have a Government shutdown again. and that Congress and the PresIdent get together and do what the American people want them to do. which is come to a budget agreement that balances the budget. that really balances the budget by the year 202no smoke and mirrors--and that we get entitlement reform. we get some tax relief for the American people. and do It all. If there is gridlock because we do not get that agreement. then the people who are trying to run the Federal Government. from passing out the Social Security checks to immigration. visas and so forth. that we do not get those people again caught In that conflict. I commend my colleagues for that and am pleased to be a supporter of it.