thank you. >> this has just been an absolute failure of lead sherp, and -- leadership and it starts at the top wit president of the united states. we know when the president was asked about the failure of the senate to pass a budget for over three years he said he had no opinion on it. can you imagine the president of the united states has no opinion on whether the united states senate, his party, the democratic party in charge of the united states senate, should have a budget for this country. well, i ran for the united states senate to get our fiscal house in order. i have two children, and i know if we don't address this debt crisis now, that it's not just about us. it's about the legacy of debt that we are burdening our children with, and so i would say, mr. president, where is your leadership? you have no opinion that the united states senate budget committee won't do a budget? your own budget failed, as senator johnson said, zero votes in the house of representatives. 0-414. and finally we have a majority leader in the senate, the democrat-led senate by harry reid who last year s