On the recordApril 26, 2023
I thank the gentleman for yielding 1 minute. Maybe I can get another. I miss the magic minute, as all of you know, because this is not enough time to debate this issue. Something that is as bad as fiscal responsibility is fiscal demagoguery. The Speaker of this House has said default is not an option. Mr. Speaker, 84 of the Republicans in this House have never voted to extend the debt limit so that default would have been inevitable. That is what this is about; trying to make some sort of deal. I urge my Republican colleagues to follow what they know to be the only rational alternative; that is, vote for a debt extension. Pay our bills. America does not welch on its debts. You believe that; we believe that. Mr. Speaker, 84 of their Members have not believed that, but we have a majority of this House that believes it. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
