Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. So, CBO came out with a report on this bill. It will add to the deficit $450 billion. That is the CBO report just out today. Now, we spent a lot of money this year. I guess I am really getting reflective because when I ran 20 years ago, I was railing against the national debt, which was at that time $4 trillion. That is why I ran. Four trillion dollars. Now it is, what, 26? And most of us joined in a lot of that this Congress because of the pandemic, and I get it. But I believe that eventually someone has got to pay the piper. And who will that be? Well, it won't be me, I am going to retire, unless they go after my Social Security and my pension fund and my investments. But it is going to be our children and our grandchildren. So eventually we are going to have to get serious about this. This bill out of the T&I Committee came out at $500 billion. Out of the Rules Committee on the floor it added $1 trillion. And, again, as we have discussed today, most of that additional trillion dollars hasn't been vetted by the committee, at least the Committee of Energy and Commerce, which is the predominant jurisdiction on this en bloc amendment. That is why I am here and have been asked to speak on this. We have got a DOE program. We have got another DOE program. We have got FCC broadband. We have got another interconnectivity. We have another FCC program.…”