Rob Woodall: “I appreciate my friend from California for yielding to me. As you know, Mr. Chairman, he is not just down here as the…”

“I appreciate my friend from California for yielding to me. As you know, Mr. Chairman, he is not just down here as the ranking member on the House Budget Committee. He is also the leader of the Republican Study Committee's Budget and Spending Task Force. The leadership he has provided in all those areas means a lot to the entire institution. I am grateful to him for it. I also want to say I am grateful to my friends in the Progressive Caucus. I disagree with their budget, and I plan to vote against it. Mr. Chairman, how often do we come down here and folks want to complain about what is not going right, but they don't want to do anything about it? To my friends' credit in the Progressive Caucus, they laid out a vision, and that is exactly what I came here to Congress to be a part of. Let's lay out our visions. Let's have some votes. Let's count those votes and see where we go from there. As you know, Mr. Chairman, absolutely any group could offer a budget today, yet we only have four alternatives being considered. That tells you something about how hard it is to put your ideas forward. So I want to thank my friends on the Progressive Caucus for doing that. I want to run through a couple of things that their budget includes, Mr. Chairman. It includes a 4 percent pay increase for Federal workers across the board. It includes $500 billion in green energy incentives. It imposes a carbon tax to deal with greenhouse gases.…”