Mike Pence: “Mr. Chairman, I come to the well this evening to support the efforts of my good friends, the gentleman from Pennsylvania…”

“Mr. Chairman, I come to the well this evening to support the efforts of my good friends, the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Toomey), the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Flake), and the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tancredo), in their efforts to restore the FEMA rescission and to find suitable offsets for the nonveterans, nondefense-related appropriations found in this supplemental bill. In the few minutes that I have, Mr. Chairman, let me just say that I believe this measure and this amendment is about putting our house in order. It is not, as some Members have suggested, restoring the cut. It is not even a reduction, Mr. Chairman. It is just a slightly smaller increase. I think tonight of all nights, in the wake of the largest tax cut in a generation, particularly the members in my party ought to remember not the victory of this time, or the victory of 20 years ago, but we ought to remember the mistakes of 20 years ago. We ought to remember the last time we cut taxes across-the-board for all Americans that we in this Congress and even in my own party filed to marry that with fiscal restraint, with fiscal responsibility. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of this amendment, for the sole reason that history is a teacher. We will either learn from it or we will be cursed to repeat it.”