Jack Kingston: “how did the Army lose a $1 million rocket launcher? How did the Air Force lose 15 jets? How did the Department of…”

“how did the Army lose a $1 million rocket launcher? How did the Air Force lose 15 jets? How did the Department of Interior build a $300,000 outhouse? Why is it that Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream gets an $800,000 taxpayer supplement? Why is it that, if one eats cheese pizza, the FDA inspects it; but if one has the cheese and pepperoni, the USDA inspects it? It is easy. It is called OPM, ``other people's money.'' In Washington, the departments, the bureaucracies are all operating on other people's money, taxpayers' money, hard-working men and women who put in 40, 50, 60 hours a week paying their tax dollars to Washington only to have it squandered by unelected faceless bureaucrats who know the beauty of OPM. They do not have to be accountable because it is not their money. Mr. Speaker, the Republican party knows whose money it is. It is the hard-working American taxpayers. That is why we believe budget surpluses should be used to pay down the debt, protect Social Security, and give a tax decrease to the working Americans; and that is what we are working for.”