Jo Maney Quotes (8 Quotes)

The budget reconciliation bill makes necessary adjustments to the growth of vital government programs serving the truly needy, without negatively impacting essential services provided to the most vulnerable members of our society. Fiscal responsibility is key to the long term viability of these critical programs.

They eventually came to another plan.

Mr. Dreier would have had to give up his chairmanship of the Rules Committee to move to another position, and that's not something that he wanted to do.

That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.

We were in contact obviously all day with the speaker and the entire leadership team trying to figure out how best to move forward in what is clearly uncharted territory. At the end of day, the speaker, in concert with the other members of the leadership, came up with kind of a shared responsibilities plan.

We'll determine how to best proceed in light of Mr. Mollohan's response.

It was a big part of the discussion. A lot of members have talked about banning it outright.

He applied through the normal route.