Barney Frank: “When you try to reconcile a bill against with having a budget, it cannot be reconciled with a bill that has increased…”

“When you try to reconcile a bill against with having a budget, it cannot be reconciled with a bill that has increased spending with abandon. It is amazing, Mr. Speaker, that they do not understand that. This surge of aggression from the other side of the aisle is simply the bitter fruit of a strategy to stymie, frustrate and defeat fiscal discipline at every turn. My colleagues from the other party are infuriated. My colleagues from the other party for this House are infuriated that our Republican House majority is a dike holding back waves upon waves of new Democrat nonsecurity spending. They ache to restore the tax and spend policies that robbed the Social Security Trust Fund for decade after decade after decade after decade when the Democrats controlled this Congress. The Democrats ran the House and they fueled an irresponsible culture of spending that drove America's books deep, deep, deep into the red. They spent with abandon. They spent without restraint. They spent blindly. They spent more than the country could bear.”