Ron Klein: “Well, I would certainly pick up on that because one of the first things that this Congress did, with our freshman class…”

“Well, I would certainly pick up on that because one of the first things that this Congress did, with our freshman class encouraging the way, was to say that we were going to change the way Congress paid for and spent the American taxpayers' money, and we adopted something called ``PAYGO,'' pay-as-you-go budgeting. In other words, we can't pass a bill without it having been paid for in the budget. You've got to find the money somewhere in the budget; you can't say, well, maybe we'll have more money next year. That's just the way everybody runs their business back home, that's just the way everybody runs their personal checkbook. I know that my wife and I operate that way, and I'm sure everybody else on the floor here does the same thing. You just can't keep spending without having the money to pay it back. And the reality is that, if you think about that, if you think about that responsible budgeting and the fact that we're spending--the number I keep throwing out--$339 million per day, think about the opportunity of investing in new energy alternatives.”