Kim Reynolds: “Mr. Speaker, I looked over the transcript from last year and noticed how similar the debate is coming from my colleague…”

“Mr. Speaker, I looked over the transcript from last year and noticed how similar the debate is coming from my colleague, as the presentation was: we have to keep spending more money. There is not a district or a State or, quite frankly, a region of the country that does not feel that there is more need in transportation appropriations, whether it be this or from the trust fund; but the reality is, it becomes a time to look at working within a budget, working within the allocations. I also want to remind my colleague that while the Committee on Rules is a traffic cop, deciding many things that comes before the Congress as it comes from committees to the floor, we have to be a little careful of just how much legislating we do on appropriations bills. I do not have to remind my colleague that there was a great deal of legislating on the appropriations bills via the amendments offered before the Committee on Rules today, thus making a decision not to make them in order, as they were not germane; and also there becomes the subject of looking at paying for some of this by raising taxes. Now, I look at the fact that there is a tax cut on the books and it is the law of the land, and that is the rate and what people are going to pay. Every time we want to add something by taking it from the tax cut, we are raising taxes.”