Ed Royce: “I want to point out to the Members of this body that if this bill had been law last year, we would have saved $659…”

“I want to point out to the Members of this body that if this bill had been law last year, we would have saved $659 million that would have gone to deficit reduction. That is the sum that we actually passed in cuts, and yet later we found that those cuts, those savings, were reallocated for additional spending programs in this House. When I think about the fact, and I have spoken about the $200 billion chronic deficits that we are running in this Government, when I think about the fact that last year we had $100 million in the ASRM program that we thought we had cut on this floor, and yet we found out subsequently that that money was reallocated for additional spending, when I think about the fact that it is really the will of the majority of this House, when the majority votes on this floor, to cut spending, and then to see that will of the majority overturned, overturned by having that money reallocated, I say let us let the will of the majority be done. Let us let the cuts be carried out. I am excited about the reform movement in this Congress. I think people have told us, ``No more politics as usual.'' I think that people have made the point to us that this change, these changes that we are implementing in public policy really represent for us a keeping faith with the expectations of the American people, that we are going to keep out commitments.…”