Tom Price: “What this chart demonstrates is that the rhetoric that we hear from the other side doesn't match the action. I call it…”

“What this chart demonstrates is that the rhetoric that we hear from the other side doesn't match the action. I call it Orwellian democracy, which is that the words don't match the actions. This chart demonstrates the seven appropriations bills. A number of us... attempted to say the Federal Government is spending too much, we ought to decrease that. In this instance, I promoted amendments that would decrease it by 1 percent. That reduction would have saved $3.9 billion. Yet the individuals who so often say... that they are champions of fiscal responsibility... overwhelmingly voted against it, 95 percent almost all the time.”