Todd Tiahrt: “Mr. Chairman, I want to just talk a little bit about some of the priorities that we have put in this bill that are very…”

“Mr. Chairman, I want to just talk a little bit about some of the priorities that we have put in this bill that are very good that address the very needs that my friends on the other side of the aisle are bringing up. But first I want to remind this body that, for nearly a generation under Democrats' control, this Congress continued to overspend the amount of money that was coming into the Federal Government. They continued to spend every penny of the Social Security surplus. They continued to spend every penny of the Medicare surplus. What was the money spent on? It was spent on too many programs that were too inefficient. Instead of stopping and looking at what we were doing to find out what works, what is the best investment in our dollars, we just continued to blindly throw money at the program, at different programs. I see this continuing now in some of the proposals. I have a chart here that talks about one of the high priorities in this bill. It is a program that works, and it works for the people who are in need of finding good programs or good jobs and in need of getting good skills, and that is the disadvantaged youth in America.”