Jack Kingston: “One of the things we have to remember as we hear, and the gentleman is a freshman, and I understand, I was listening to…”

“One of the things we have to remember as we hear, and the gentleman is a freshman, and I understand, I was listening to some of my Democrat colleagues calling your group a bunch of extremists and so forth. You know, what is interesting is the freshman class has voted on a balanced budget, and that budget has passed both Houses, and it passed. With the majority of votes in both Houses, and yet the President was the one who vetoed that. Now, the Democrats who are calling you guys extremists have not submitted a budget or have not voted on a budget. In fact, the President's budget did not get one single vote, Democrat or Republican, including our colleagues who we were entertained by earlier tonight. They have not submitted a balanced budget. They have not voted on a balanced budget. I think what is so important is, you know, all of this apportioning the blame seems to be going on in a real fervency. It takes our eye off what is important. A balanced budget is what is important. It will lower interest rates. It will create jobs. It will bring down the cost of home mortgages, the cost of automobile payments, student loans and so forth. Even more importantly than that, it will save our country from economic disaster. You cannot live in a country that has a $4.9 trillion debt and rising. And that debt was brought about by Republicans Democrats. We all know that. Anybody who starts blaming that on one President or one party or the other is fooling themselves.”