Political Quotes

“Just to clarify one thing. Under the current President, the national debt now is 100 percent of the GDP. For every $1 we spend, 42 cents is borrowed. That's bad enough, but now the President offers no reform to bend the spending curve whatsoever. Instead, he pushes forward a failed health care policy that has a price tag of $1.7 trillion. It does not decrease the cost of medicine, and it does not increase the access to medicine, which were the two primary objectives which we heard over and over again by the other party. That's why we're here tonight. This is one- sixth of the economy. And yet we hear the same dogma over and over again. That's why this debate is taking place. We have passed a continuing resolution to keep the government funded so that these civilian employees and all other government employees that we hear so much about can continue to receive their paychecks. But Harry Reid and the Senate does not want to keep the government open because they're insisting on supporting a $1.7 trillion addition to the national debt, a health care policy which increases the cost of medicine and decreases the access. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Perry), an Active Duty member of the United States Army who has the rank of colonel.”