John Ensign: “What we are arguing is that other spending is going to be increased because of the budget gimmicks because there is no…”

“What we are arguing is that other spending is going to be increased because of the budget gimmicks because there is no transparency. What my amendment does is put transparency back into the process. That is why the Senator from New Hampshire and myself are arguing how critical this amendment is if we want to actually have some fiscal restraint, if we want to not just continue to blow up the deficits and pass this huge debt on to future generations. Without transparency, without all the budget gimmicks, the numbers that my colleagues saw that I put up and the charts I put up for the last 5 years--let's put those charts back up. For the last 5 years, $84 billion total has been added in nondefense, other types of social spending programs.”