Jim Banks: “We have got to think about the audacity of these claims. I am not talking in my amendment about cutting any specific…”

“We have got to think about the audacity of these claims. I am not talking in my amendment about cutting any specific program. I am proposing an amendment to cut 14 percent across the board to prevent the excessive spending that we are seeing being proposed from across the aisle that would spend substantially more than what the Federal Government spent in the year before. Madam Chair, we simply cannot afford this reckless proposal from my friends on the other side of the aisle. My amendment offers Members a clear choice. If a Member votes ``no,'' that Member supports busting the budget caps and putting our national security at risk due to entering into sequestration, which is inevitable if we pass the spending measures being proposed from across the aisle. However, by supporting my amendment, Members can show that they support fiscal sanity by honoring the budget caps and protecting our national security. Madam Chair, I will continue to come back to this microphone over and over and over again and propose this same amendment to each nondefense spending division, because I promised my constituents in northeast Indiana that that is exactly what I would do if they elected me to Congress, that I would fight to reduce spending to rebuild our military and to support fiscal sanity in our Nation, once again, by fighting for balanced budgets and fiscally conservative spending measures.…”