Political Quotes

“That's the way this majority is acting. They still have the checks in the checkbook. They still have a credit card that is being held by the Chinese. But where does the money come from? With all this deficit spending, this outrageous spending that Congress has been doing, it is going to come from our children and great-grandchildren. They are going to live at a lower standard than we live today, be the first generation that has lived at a lower standard than the previous generation, and it is because of this "gimme now" attitude that this Congress, under the leadership of Nancy Pelosi, has been doing. So passing a budget will at least help stop this outrageous spending and will put some caps, maybe, on the discretionary spending for this year. Also, not passing a budget means that Congress will not muster the leadership to set any kind of framework for paring back the entitlement spending. We have got to control entitlement spending. Our colleague who is the ranking member on the Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, introduced a bill in the last Congress, in the 110th where you and I both were here, that would set forth some parameters for controlling entitlement spending. We have got to do that. There is no question. In fact, about two-thirds of the Federal budget is on autopilot, and it just continues to grow exponentially. We have got to change the whole budgetary process, and that is what I hope to see us do.”