Andy Harris said "Mr. Chair, I congratulate the gentleman, because the gentleman brings an amendment to the floor that does something with the $2 trillion budget deficit. He is right, we have a $33 trillion debt. Our interest payments in a few years are going to be over $1 trillion-- more than Social Security, more than Medicare, more than Medicaid, more than food stamps, more than all of them. One fact check before I sit down. Now we heard it was FY 2007, so I guess the speechwriters can't make up their minds. Is it FY 2000, 2001, 2003? Now it is 2007. I would remind the Chair, the spending level in the 2007 bill was $17.8 billion, and that is almost $5 billion less than what we appropriate in this bill." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 26, 2023

Mr. Chair, I congratulate the gentleman, because the gentleman brings an amendment to the floor that does something with the $2 trillion budget deficit. He is right, we have a $33 trillion debt. Our interest payments in a few years are going to be over $1 trillion-- more than Social Security, more than Medicare, more than Medicaid, more than food stamps, more than all of them. One fact check before I sit down. Now we heard it was FY 2007, so I guess the speechwriters can't make up their minds. Is it FY 2000, 2001, 2003? Now it is 2007. I would remind the Chair, the spending level in the 2007 bill was $17.8 billion, and that is almost $5 billion less than what we appropriate in this bill.

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Andy Harris

Republican · Maryland

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