WASHINGTON -- Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire yesterday used his last major floor speech as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to blast his own party's leadership in Congress, accusing Republican leaders of engaging in the type of fiscal recklessness that he said led voters to oust the GOP from power.
Gregg, who will give up the Budget Committee gavel when his party relinquishes control of Congress in January, issued his unusually harsh critique in reference to a sweeping tax-cut bill that Republicans were rushing through in the final hours of the congressional session.
"The American people took the reins of government away from the Republican Party relative to the Republican Congress in this last election," Gregg said in a speech on the Senate floor. "They did so, I think, in large part because they were tired of our hypocrisy as a party on the issue of fiscal responsibility. And it would appear that their concerns are justified. It is true, I guess."
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GOP Man Admits His Party's Fiscal Irresponsibility
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GOP Man Admits His Party's Fiscal Irresponsibility
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Oh yes, you throw in enough crumbs for the "little" guys, and the big guys can take the cake. I agree with the NH Dems - Gregg is just waking up to his party's fiscal irresponsibility? Trying to save his own seat is more like it. If he was really for fiscal responsibility, as a senior senator, he should have been speaking out for the last 5 years.
Barbara Fitzpatrick