Robert Dornan: “I was not planning on joining this debate today, but I got a phone call in the Cloakroom about 2 hours ago, and my only…”

“I was not planning on joining this debate today, but I got a phone call in the Cloakroom about 2 hours ago, and my only daughter-in-law, I have 3 married daughters, a married son, and a single son, and my one son who is married, a beautiful daughter-in-law, they have two children, and she just called me from her place of employment in Virginia and said that she is starting to go into labor. That will be grandchild number 10 today, or in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. The third child, it will probably be today. This is really what this debate is all about. We talk about it on both sides of the aisle, that we are trying to make this a better country for our grandchildren. Our debt is so enormous, we are really talking about great-grandchildren being saddled with this massive, crushing debt. If you look at the big picture of what 7 years is really all about, this sounds almost too simple to be believed, but it is true. My friends on the other side of the aisle want to spend $13 trillion, or at least their leader, Bill Clinton, wants to spend $13 trillion. What do we plan on spending on this side of the aisle over the next 7 years? We plan on spending $12 trillion; $12 trillion here, $13 trillion there.…”