JOHN LINDER: “My daughter is grown and she and her husband have a 1-year-old son and another child on the way. The last time an…”

“My daughter is grown and she and her husband have a 1-year-old son and another child on the way. The last time an official House committee submitted a bill to balance the budget, she was 2. Today, House Republicans present the first honest attempt to balance the budget. We do so not for politics, but for our children, my daughter and son, and my grandchildren. We do so because my family, your family and families across the country cannot achieve the American dream if we do nothing. If we do nothing, we will pay more interest on the debt than we spend for defense. Moreover, my grandchildren will pay more than $185,000 in their lifetimes just to pay interest on the debt. We will not stand by and watch any child in this country be subject to that type of cruelty. Yet the Democrat Party, which needlessly frightened children of the impending doom of school lunches is utterly unmoved by the threat to the dreams and future of those same kids.”