Gilbert Gutknecht: “It is interesting, because when we first came here, we are all freshmen, we were not part of accumulating this huge…”

“It is interesting, because when we first came here, we are all freshmen, we were not part of accumulating this huge national debt, and I think we all made the pledge to our voters last year that we want to do something about that, and we need some change around Washington. We came here to change the way Washington does business and yet what we have heard from many leaders on the other side, including the person down at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, is that they want to fiercely defend the status quo, and I think the American people do want change. In fact, it was less than a month ago that the President stood right up there and he said in his speech that we were not giving the American people enough change and now he had heard the message from the November elections. I did not know until tonight though that we are actually going to be spending 30 percent more than the President requested. As somebody said when we first got here, people around here sometimes give the word 'hypocrisy' a bad name. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.”