On the recordMay 24, 2016
We have a somewhat ironic situation where the Republicans are saying: President Obama, you don't want to spend enough. President Obama, you have to spend more. This from the so-called party of fiscal responsibility telling our President's budget: You aren't spending enough, you aren't spending enough on fossil fuels on this case, spend hundreds of billions of dollars more of money we don't have that we are borrowing from China and Saudi Arabia to fund a legacy technology that we are moving away from. Of course, we still rely on fossil fuels. The gentleman won't have any disagreement, and I am not trying to zero out the account. We are simply reducing it to the level that the President wants to spend at rather than throwing more and more money hand over fist like this Republican tax-and-spend Congress continues to do. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
