Blake Farenthold Quotes

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

Congress, of course, is not bound to accept the president's budget figures, but the House has the sole power to appropriate funds for spending, and it is a duty that should not be ignored.

The bill then says if the Senate does not act, then H.R. 1 (the House-passed bill that cuts $61 billion) will be the law of the land. In addition to that, it says that if all else fails, and the Senate brings about a shutdown, then members should not get their pay.

A government shutdown is inexcusable.

Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let's take up the appropriations bill first, not wait until four days beforehand - no one has mentioned anything, and, all of a sudden, somebody looks at their watch and says, 'Hey, in four days, the government is going to run out of money.'

I don't care what kind of speeches you make as long as you don't vote against the appropriations.

In the Israeli system, if the Knesset cannot reach agreement on a budget by the end of the year, one-twelfth of the previous year’s budget is automatically appropriated each month for 6 months. If at the end of 6 months, there is still no agreement, we automatically call new elections. We have never had to call an election.

We don't want to see the government shut down.

We are united around a simple goal, and that is keeping the government open while protecting our constituents from the harmful effects of Obamacare.

I always want to make sure we protect our soldiers' pay if there is a shutdown of any kind.

Let's push the Pentagon off the fiscal cliff.

The decision is 'trust fund' versus 'no more Medicaid' - and that shouldn't be a tough decision.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

I do not believe we should shut down the federal government.

I'm confident in our resolve to make the decisions necessary to keep our country and our people safe and prosperous and I look forward to representing the citizens of Pennsylvania's 6th Congressional District for the next two years.

Strong advocacy for education, health care and worker safety will be indispensable if they are to get their fair share of President Bush's austere budget for the next fiscal year.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.

Clinton passed his first budget without a single Republican vote in either the House or the Senate. Before it led to the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, it led to a Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.

We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

To be honest, I haven't seen much serious budget planning since the Republicans took control of the House after the 2010 elections and grabbed onto the Senate filibuster. It's not the White House's fault that John Boehner couldn't deliver on a bigger deal.