Jim Nussle: “Let us talk about next year and what the Blue Dog budget does next year. It increases the debt limit. That is…”

“Let us talk about next year and what the Blue Dog budget does next year. It increases the debt limit. That is interesting. There are lots of complaints about raising the debt limit; but both of the alternatives provided by the other party raise the debt limit in 2004. Spend a lot of money, even had a tax cut. All of these complaints seem to be very curious when they come to the floor and are complaining about raising the debt today. The debt limit increase was almost identical to the conference report that we are providing here tonight. So it is fine that you can come here and wax philosophical about what is going to happen in 2013, but what happens next year, let us focus on that is what I would suggest. The two budgets that were presented by a majority of caucus from the Democratic side increased the debt limit. In addition, to that we have heard time and time again here tonight how we are not spending enough. I will guarantee Members that as we get into the appropriation season, we will hear speech after speech after speech telling us how we are not spending money for this and how we are not spending enough money for that, and how we have not made it a priority here and how we have not made it a priority there.”