Jim Banks: “What the other side is proposing is both reckless and irresponsible. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want…”

“What the other side is proposing is both reckless and irresponsible. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to bust the budget caps to fulfill liberal spending priorities and, in the process, put our national security at risk. In Indiana, Hoosiers understand that you cannot spend more than you take in, and it is long past time for Washington to adopt that Hoosier common sense. Again, my amendment is simple. It reduces spending in this division by 14 percent. It protects our defense priorities and brings us closer to avoiding the devastating harm to national security that would result from sequestration. Mr. Chairman, I am not going to give up. I am going to keep coming back to this microphone over and over and over again to propose 14 percent across-the-board spending cuts to each of these divisions. It is what my constituents in northeast Indiana expect me to do, and it is what is going to motivate me to keep coming back, to try to restore some fiscal sanity to this body. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”