Marilyn Musgrave: “we've had an interesting discussion here tonight. I am offering an amendment that would propose to reduce the amount by…”

“we've had an interesting discussion here tonight. I am offering an amendment that would propose to reduce the amount by one-half of 1 percent, a mere 50 cents on $100. As we look at this appropriations bill, this is $3.2 billion over last year, or a 6.7 percent increase. My amendment would take it to a 6.2 percent increase. As we think about this, I hear many things from my friends on the other side of the aisle about ``investments.'' You can use that word euphemistically when we talk about investments, because what I'm thinking when I hear that word is tax increase on the American family. We hear many worthy things that this money will be spent for, but there is a philosophical difference in this chamber. And as my friends on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Chairman, talk about us being fringe Members over here, what they're acknowledging is that we were not part of the spending problem for our party. We were the folks in the back of the room raising our hand and saying, we are spending too much money. We do not have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. As we've seen in recent years under different Presidents and different Congresses, when we lower the tax rate, the revenues increase. So we don't have a revenue problem. What we have is this spending problem.”