Austin Scott: “Mr. Ross, it is always a pleasure to come down on the floor and talk with you about the pressing issues facing our…”

“Mr. Ross, it is always a pleasure to come down on the floor and talk with you about the pressing issues facing our Nation and the world today. You know, Mr. Ross, you talked about the debt, and you talked about the budget. It is the budget that provides us with the blueprint. Just this morning, on my way, before I got on the airplane to get up here, I was talking with one of my constituents out in Cobb County, a town called Austell. {time} 2320 I was talking to Ms. Winnie Smith, putting in a yard sign in her yard. She came up to me and she said, ``Congressman, our country is moving in the wrong direction. If you could just do four things. The four things I wish you all could do something about right away, one is secure our borders. We have a terrible problem with our borders. If we could just protect this country and protect our porous borders.'' Then she said, ``Bring down these gas prices. Please do something about the gas prices.'' Then she asked me, she said, ``Lord, if you could just do something and get our young men and women home out of this mess in Iraq. And then, Congressman, if you could just do something about this debt.'' I told her, ``Ms.…”