John Mica: “Mr. Speaker, tonight our action is really about choices. The administration and the other side of the aisle has made…”

“Mr. Speaker, tonight our action is really about choices. The administration and the other side of the aisle has made their choices. They would choose in fact to cut off payments for Social Security and maybe veterans at this point if in fact they run out of additional money to steal. In fact, the irony of this is they have been stealing and robbing Federal retirement trust funds to keep the indebtedness extended for this country. So tonight is really about choices. We have seen on TV they are going to stop the printing presses. They do not want us to pay seniors. Mr. Speaker, that is not what the Republicans want to do tonight. We want to see, in fact, that our seniors receive their check. We want to tell seniors that, in fact, we have made a different choice, that we think that we should choose in this budget whether people should continue to be paid for not working; whether we should pay illegal immigrants who come in and get better health and medical and housing benefits than our seniors and our veterans. Those are some of the choices before us, and that is part of the choice in our budget, in our proposal. And we are going to face that measure and those choices. So, tonight the choice is we stop the show, we stop printing the funny money or continue in a responsible fashion.”