John Campbell: “Mr. Chairman, let's be clear what we are doing here: we are not cutting anything. We are proposing to do less of an…”

“Mr. Chairman, let's be clear what we are doing here: we are not cutting anything. We are proposing to do less of an increase in this bill than what has been proposed by the majority party. Just to illustrate, as I have done before, what I will do again, because I keep hearing talk about cuts: one equals one; two is more than one, even if you want three. This bill, what we have proposed is to have two, is to spend more than the one that was spent before, to spend two. There are some people who would like to spend three. We think that's too much. We think that we have a deficit. We think that we have seen the majority party propose to increase taxes by however much money they happen to spend. We think they should spend less. We think government should spend less so that the taxpayers can keep more of their own money that they earned. Mr. Chairman, we can get this budget under control. We can get this deficit under control without cutting spending and without raising taxes, if we just control how much we increase the spending by.”