Katie Porter: “Mr. Speaker, what we are having here in Washington lately is about 70 percent politics and about 30 percent substance.…”

“Mr. Speaker, what we are having here in Washington lately is about 70 percent politics and about 30 percent substance. While politics are always going to be a part of it, I think what the American people expect of us is 30 percent politics and 70 percent substance, or even more. We have to reverse all of this. There is way too much politics involved. Mr. Speaker, the President has just sent to the Congress a budget that is 90 percent politics and 10 percent substance. It ramps up spending in a lot of areas. I agree with the gentleman on some of the areas he mentioned earlier and some of the special interests that are not contributing at all to deficit reduction and ought to. But the President very easily ramps up spending and plays to every special interest group in our country saying we are going to do better for you in this, better for you in that, better for you in another thing. And he does it without any responsibility for the bottom line, and that is for the country as a whole.”