Norma Torres: “And I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, $2 trillion, that is what…”

“And I thank the gentleman from Texas for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. Mr. Speaker, $2 trillion, that is what this GOP Congress added to the debt last year when they passed their tax scam, $2 trillion that has been taken away from our children and grandchildren to give tax breaks to corporations and the very wealthy. And today, we take up three bills which are estimated to add another $100 billion. I suppose in comparison to the tax scam, that may be small potatoes, but this is real spending with no offsets and no effort to even try to find an offset. When the 115th Congress finally ends, we will have to put trillions on the Nation's credit card--trillions. Next year, those of us who may be lucky enough to be back will have the hard task of digging ourselves out of this hole, this wall of debt that will have been created by the 115th Congress. We will have new Members here who will need to deal with the decisions that we are making here today. Let me tell you about my experience in having to deal with those very irresponsible decisions that put us and pushed us into debt. In 2008, when I was first elected to the State legislature, I was elected with a wall of debt of $15 billion. My first 30 days in office, we passed four different budgets, and none of it added up. We simply couldn't pay our bills. We had charged ourselves to a place that we could no longer continue.…”