Rand Paul: “Reserving the right to object, it has now been 59 days that the opposition has been trying to orchestrate a backroom…”

“Reserving the right to object, it has now been 59 days that the opposition has been trying to orchestrate a backroom deal to raise the debt ceiling. Raising the debt ceiling is an incredibly important debate and shouldn't be done in the back room by a few people. It shouldn't be done through parliamentary trickery or chicanery. It should be done out in the full and open and under the ordinary rules of the Senate. We are now borrowing $40,000 every second, $4 billion a day. We must borrow from China to run the ordinary functions of our government. In fact, it is worse. We borrow from China to send money to China. We borrow money from China to send money to Pakistan. We build bridges in Pakistan with money borrowed from China. It can't go on. No American family can continue to spend money endlessly that they don't have. All we are asking is for a commonsense resolution that says we can't keep borrowing. What I ask is unanimous consent that the Senator modify her request so that it not be in order for the Senate to consider a conference report that includes reconciliation instructions to raise the debt limit. I ask that as a unanimous consent request. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Arizona. Mr. McCAIN. I will reserve the right to object to the modification, and I will object in just a moment.…”