Todd Rokita: “Not what he says, exactly right. I also want to draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to what the gentleman said on his…”

“Not what he says, exactly right. I also want to draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to what the gentleman said on his poster board there about the eighth point, create a sustainable Federal budget, and the gentleman talked very articulately about the need for that. It seems obvious, quite frankly, I would think, to every American family that must do this inside the walls of their own dwellings, but for some reason, it escapes the Federal Government. I draw the House's attention, the Speaker's attention, to the wording that appears after that comma. It says, ``including entitlement reform''--``create a sustainable budget, including entitlement reform.'' We touched on this a little bit earlier in the hour that we have. At this point, I am worried, Mr. Speaker, that some who are watching this discussion may think: Well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I put my hard-earned money into these programs, being Medicare and Social Security, primarily, every 2 weeks or whenever my paycheck comes, and I see the government taking out a lot, and that is my money. That is my property. What is Congress thinking? What are these two gentleman from South Carolina and Indiana and others who are going to speak here in a minute saying when they said entitlement reform? I put in; therefore, I should get out. I want to take just a minute to address that because, of course, in a very real sense, that is what every working American has done. In another equally real and more important sense, we haven't.…”