Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 5 minutes. Mr. Speaker, our good friends across the aisle have been bristling when my colleagues have pointed out the breathtaking budget hypocrisy being shown by the majority today, so I thought, instead, I would offer the comments of their fellow Republicans. Here is headline news: ``Conservatives irate over GOP's budget hypocrisy.'' ``Critics chafe over a balanced budget amendment vote on the heels of an omnibus spending spree.'' And then we get quotes from a number of Members, including Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, who says: ``There is no one on Capitol Hill, and certainly no one on Main Street, that will take this vote seriously.'' We hear from someone named Barbara Boland, who equated the exercise to ``gorging on a sumptuous feast while insisting that you want a svelte physique.'' Mr. Speaker, America knows they just drove a $2 trillion deficit hole into our budget with their gold-plated tax-and-spend scam; and the CBO now predicts the deficit will reach an astounding $1 trillion in 2019, and will continue increasing annually to $1.5 trillion by 2028. That is not something the Constitution made them do. That is not something the Declaration of Independence made them do, or the Gettysburg Address. That is something they cooked up all by themselves. Mr. Speaker, they promised to drain the swamp, but they just moved into the swamp and drained the Treasury instead.…”