Jim Nussle: “I have been doing a little research over on this side. Again for the third time in a row, the minority rushes to the…”

“I have been doing a little research over on this side. Again for the third time in a row, the minority rushes to the floor with a breathless motion on fiscal catastrophe, as it was announced, and how if we vote for tax cuts without paying for them, all sorts of red ink will be used on charts all over America. My goodness, you had to almost ruin a printer to print all that red ink on that poster. It is fascinating to me that someone who would be so concerned, so breathlessly concerned about the fiscal catastrophe that awaits the United States if, in fact, you vote for taxes without paying for them would, as I have discovered in roll call No. 144, which was just voted on here, let us see, May 5, where the gentleman who just spoke voted for just such a proposition. He voted for tax cuts without paying for them. And now he rushes down here to the floor saying it is an important principle of fiscal sanity to pay as you go. I know another principle and that is actions speak louder than words.”