David Perdue: “I say thank you to Senator Daines. His leadership means the world here. With that, I have hope we are going to get…”

“I say thank you to Senator Daines. His leadership means the world here. With that, I have hope we are going to get there. In light of the time and the hour and the other business that is before this Senate body tonight, I will abridge my closing comments. I want to say this. There is a four-letter word missing in Washington today--H-O-P-E. People sent this class, 12 members of the Republican caucus--that is almost 25 percent of our caucus--are freshmen this year. We ran on this topic, as you heard several Members say, but we had the chairman of the Budget Committee here. We had the chairman of Foreign Relations here. These people are very concerned about this topic. We are not just complaining about the status quo. Again, we are not complaining about the other side. There are no innocent parties when it comes to this debt crisis. If you look at the last 75, 80 years, this country has lived and benefited from the greatest economic boom in the history of mankind. Yet here we are today, $20 trillion of debt, over $100 trillion of future commitments already made by this Federal Government. It is basically $1 million for every family in America. We don't need to talk about the need anymore. What we need to talk about is what do we do. That is what we came up here for. We need to focus on results. This is what we are proposing. We put it in language now. We are moving to put it into a bill on the floor. We have Democratic input. Again, let me say this.…”