Steve Womack: “Here we are, in the people's House, charged with the responsibility of taking taxpayers' money and making sure that it…”

“Here we are, in the people's House, charged with the responsibility of taking taxpayers' money and making sure that it is spent properly, with proper oversight. And yet, we are about to vote on a bill that is set to top-line numbers; that has not been subject to debate in this Chamber. Let's revisit how we got here. Our friends on the other side of the aisle said they were going to do a budget, and they didn't do a budget. They couldn't produce the votes. So then, they decided, Mr. Speaker, that they were going to do a caps agreement, and they proposed a caps agreement; and only because of a self-executing rule did they deem the numbers to which the appropriators should write the bills. No debate, none at all; just pull the numbers out of the air, put them in a self-executing rule, and that is what we will write to. Mr. Speaker, this bill is going nowhere. It is a waste of time for the House of Representatives to have been spending on a bill that is absolutely going nowhere. My motion sends this bill back to the committee where, hopefully, we can come to some form of agreement on a caps number. Now, we have got a lot to worry about. At the end of this year, if we don't have an agreement, we are going to trigger a sequester that nobody wants. It could be devastating to our country. But, instead of spending our time, Mr.…”