The gentleman may want to leave before I do this chart because this chart really upsets people.

This is probably going to be the first time you have ever heard this, Chip. I don't think you are cynical enough. That is actually very funny for those of us who know Chip. We have actually created a motto in our office: Money, power…

You have to keep trying. My argument is that there is a path. Madam Speaker, I appreciate you tolerating us, but there is a path where you can make this math work. The problem is it is going to be hard. There are going to be people who are…

Oddly enough, I get this crazy thing where I will get business models that are built on today's way of healthcare reimbursement, which need sick people to exist. They will come in and say: Okay, I am wearing two hats. For my business, I…

You said this, and I actually stole it from you months ago, Mr. Roy. Every dime we as Members of Congress vote on is borrowed money. Every dime we vote on is borrowed money, and if you actually sort of work it out on the annual, all…

That is coming out of part of the FICA tax, but it is the labor force participation. When you create incentives in society not to be part of society, then you lose all sorts of things. Let's do this slightly out of order. I was going to do…

This election you just saw, you have the prosperity of your family and the tax code, but you have an opportunity to use that stressor. Mr. Roy, this is actually where my punch line at the end was going to be: Are we nimble enough to use…

It really is the vast majority of the money. Now, it is earned benefits. You earned it. We just don't have the money for it. I am going to light myself on fire. I am going to go out of order.

It is more complicated, and I have to do about a half-hour presentation to talk about it because it is more than just the disability payments that are part of Social Security and SSI.

Medicare spending, when I checked about 6 weeks ago, was already up 10 percent in spending this fiscal year.

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy) for the purposes of a colloquy.

Forgive me, Madam Speaker, as we get our boards all lined up. Madam Speaker, I am going to try something a little different than starting with the debt pie. We are going to actually sort of walk through some of the chaos that is coming…

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Texas is my buddy. In some ways he is much more elegant with language. He has the misfortune of being a lawyer. I show up at townhalls and things like that and they say it is defense spending. Then they…

The running joke in our office, and this is one of our tests for the interns--you are going to be tested on this later: What is your government? In one sentence, describe it. It is an insurance company with an army.

Regardless of whether they are a cartel or a local mom-and-pop organization trying to contaminate their own damn communities, deadly drugs on Indian reservations are horrible.

I think this is a Catch-22, but I also think there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I hope we can keep this hearing focused on the substance. I hope we can keep it focused on what our tribal leaders have told us.

A few months ago, before this very Subcommittee, tribal leaders bravely spoke about death threats, yes, death threats, they received from the international criminal cartels.