On the recordJune 30, 2011
I am pleased to be here today with the senior Senator from Colorado to talk about these important issues. The first thing I want to talk about is the debt ceiling itself. People at home are asking me constantly: Michael, what in the world is going on back there? We are dealing with our budget at the local level, we are dealing with our budget at the State level, we are making choices that are not popular and are not easy to make but we are moving ahead and making decisions in our businesses and making decisions at home. We are moving ahead. What is wrong with Washington, DC? Part of the problem in this place is that people are not just entitled, it seems, to their own opinions, they are also entitled to their own set of facts. I think when you are getting paid by the taxpayer you have an obligation to actually not play with your own set of facts but to come out here and say what the facts are. What the facts are on the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling and the vote, is that this is not a case of deciding as you are sitting at the kitchen table and you are spending too much and so you are going to cut up your credit card. I would be for that. That is not what we are talking about here. This is about bills that have already been incurred by the United States. These are debts already owed by the United States.…
