“I will tell you the outrage here is that we are having to do this because the majority — the former majority — when they had the majority in the House and the majority in the Senate and the White House failed to pass an appropriations bill. They left the American people in this country with this pile of crap, they should not complain about how we tried to clean this up.”

– U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID), on the passage of the three-week continuing resolution to fund the federal government into April.