During a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Congressman Hoyer expressed his opinion about the federal budget, "The fact is, you don't need a budget."

Congressional candidate and Maryland House Minority Leader, Tony O'Donnell called Steny Hoyer's budget comments "imbecilic."

As reported by CNSNews.com on February 8, 2012 Hoyer said: "What does the budget do? The budget does one thing and really only one thing: It sets the parameters of spending and discretionary caps. Other than that, the Appropriations committee are not bound by the Budget committee's priorities."

O'Donnell responded vigorously; "It is no wonder our debt is now over $16 Trillion dollars. Our Congressman failed to pass a budget when he was the House Majority Leader with a Democratic Senate and President. Now we know why. He would rather have a blank check to spend money on whatever programs he deems necessary passing the bill on to our children and grandchildren instead of making the tough decisions.

It is time for Hoyer to step down and let the voters send an adult to do the job!

I am calling on Representative Hoyer to do the right thing, renounce his comments and get back to work."

CNS quoted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), "We do not need to bring a budget to the floor this year."

When asked why the Democrats in the Senate have not passed a budget in 3 years, Congressman Hoyer went on to claim, "So that this 1,000 days they haven't passed a budget, the Republicans went for equal lengths of time without passing a budget. I think 05' and 06',"

O'Donnell responded, "Congress did pass budgets in 2005 (H.R. 1815) and 2006 (H.R. 5122).

Hoyer is fabricating stories to cover his failure to lead – he simply has no plan, nor intent to comply with his Constitutional duty to America."