Jeff Miller: “Just in conclusion, one of the concerns I have about this total bill, it has 70-some billion of new spending over and…”

“Just in conclusion, one of the concerns I have about this total bill, it has 70-some billion of new spending over and above what has been spent over the past year. It is supposed to come out of our non-Social Security surplus. Now, not only do we not have a Social Security surplus, we are going to be into deficit spending. Anything we can do to reduce that 70-some billion of new spending that was put in the budget back in May of this year, that I supported, that was expecting these $300 billion surpluses. Now that we do not have these huge surpluses, it makes it very difficult for us fiscal conservatives to support a bill like this. So anything that can reduce the total cost of this bill by $1 billion I would hope would be supported by this House.”