Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his service as a police officer, law enforcement, and also now in Congress. We are delighted to have you. Mr. Speaker, I yield next to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I thank Mr. Johnson for leading these opportunities for us to communicate with the American people openly and freely in a more casual, unhurried way of doing so. It is good to be able to talk about these issues. Hopefully, folks are paying attention. We are just trying to get the truth out and call out the issues that are extremely important to them that we are working on in Congress. When I get up here, a lot of times I am talking about our food supply and the farmers who grow it--as a Californian, we grow a lot of different crops--the water it takes to grow those crops, our energy, the condition of our energy in this country. Tonight, I will talk more about our fiscal condition in this Nation and of this government. It is troubling because a recent report issued by the Congressional Budget Office found that the net interest of our national debt--Mr. Johnson was talking about that a little bit ago on spending--just the interest payment on our national debt will amount to a $10.5 trillion burden for our taxpayers over the next decade. We talk in these 10-year numbers. If you average that out, that is $1.05 trillion per year just in interest service.…”