Angie Craig: “in my concluding minutes, let me thank my colleague from Montana for his strong support and for the always strong dose…”

“in my concluding minutes, let me thank my colleague from Montana for his strong support and for the always strong dose of good common sense he brings to the floor of the U.S. Senate, which sometimes does not prevail here when we debate fiscal matters, when we work in setting the priorities that he so clearly spelled out are the responsibilities of legislators like ourselves in meeting the mandates of a constitution and of the kind of government we have. I think we all recognize that our Government cannot be all things to all people, and yet for well over three decades we have had a Congress that largely believed we could continue to spend and get involved in almost every aspect of American life, stimulating, offering, providing, adding to and always directing and controlling ultimately when we put the Federal tax dollar there. That has amounted, as I mentioned in my opening comments, to a $4.7 trillion debt that is now more than $18,500 of debt for every man, woman, and child in the United States.”