On the recordMay 31, 2011
I thank the gentleman from Michigan for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are here today, not talking about something as the other side would contend is a joke. This is a very serious issue, and I rise in opposition to an increase in the debt ceiling that would just give the President another couple of trillion dollars to keep spending the way he has been spending for the last 2 years. I think Americans across the country recognize that this wild spending spree the President has been on the last 2 years has to come to an end, and it's going to start here on this House floor where we are going to finally invoke fiscal discipline. And, of course, over 100 Members of the other side have asked for a clean vote. They want another trillion to keep going along, maybe 2 trillion, to keep spending money that we don't have.
