Dan Miller: “I have been proud to have a chance to work with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] on a series of amendments to try…”

“I have been proud to have a chance to work with the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] on a series of amendments to try to cut spending and add fiscal sanity to this bill. This bill started off as $10.5 billion when the President introduced it. We have added almost $2 billion more of spending to the program. We just keep adding new program after new program. This is a $250 million program, actually two programs. I do not know what we need two more programs for. We are already giving money under chapter 1 to rural and urban schools. This is not requested by the President; it was not included in his budget. Last week we spent 2 days debating the Balanced Budget Amendment. Now what are we doing? We are just adding more spending, adding more spending. We have to get some sense in our budget. Mr. Chairman, I support the amendment of the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Boehner] to try to get the budget in balance.”