Peter Deutsch: “I guess I pose the question to my Republican colleagues who are here, two freshman Republicans who are about to take…”

“I guess I pose the question to my Republican colleagues who are here, two freshman Republicans who are about to take over the next special order, and the question is, they came here saying they were going to run Government like a business. What we have is a situation, if you would think about it, in any corporation in American where the CEO has a disagreement with the board of directors. And what they decide to do is, they decide to furlough the workers and pay them. If you think about that, furlough the workers and pay them when they have a disagreement, and I guess I would throw back to any of my Republican colleagues or anyone in America, is there any corporation in America that would do that? Absolutely not. And if any corporation did that, if it were a publicly traded corporation, the value of that corporation would disintegrate the following day. That is exactly what we have done. Again, if we think about what is going on, it is a situation that is totally indefensible. Adults have disagreements. They have disagreements, and what they do in those disagreements, is, they try to work out those disagreements. On a practical level what is happening is we are actually wasting taxpayer dollars, about $50 million a day of actual salary expenditure, $50 million a day for the last 19 days, over $750 million that has been wasted in direct taxpayer dollars to date.”