On the recordJuly 28, 2021
I am sorry if I sound a little cranky, but I have had a lot of coffee. As you know, Mr. Speaker, at a certain point when you start to stack this stuff up it just breaks your heart, because we are better than the games we are playing right now. Please trust me, if Republicans were doing this, I would be, and I have been, when we have tried doing these sorts of things I have been every bit as aggressive. So here is the scam so the public understands this: There are things like PAYGO where, hey, if a program goes more than 5 years, it has to be paid for. So, Mr. Speaker, what if you create a multi-multi-multibillion dollar program, and then on the fifth year you just pretend it comes to an end? Hey, we are just going to drop it. It doesn't really exist. Wink, wink, nod, nod. We know a future Congress will have to extend it, because it have will have a constituency, but that way when it is scored, it scores within--and we don't have to pretend that we just created another program that has no funding and, therefore, continues to explode that debt. This is actually what the Democrats are doing, and much of the spending is the creating games. So earlier this year we created things like the childcare tax credit extension. Republicans really want to work on this, because particularly if we can target it to help the working poor there is a much more uncomfortable conversation, but we need to have it because, as you know, Mr. Speaker, the United States has a collapsing fertility rate.…
