Melton Hancock: “this argument that we are into is getting to where if it was not so serious, it would be amusing. We are talking about…”

“this argument that we are into is getting to where if it was not so serious, it would be amusing. We are talking about voting to reduce the deficit. We are talking about concentrating on the budget of the Federal Government. Do you not think it is time that we started talking about the people back home and doing something to help them balance their budgets? Who do we represent up here? The U.S. Government or the people that elected us? I am going to concentrate my vote on doing everything I can to give the people tax breaks back home and reduce the overall size of the Federal Government rather than merely talking about, we cannot have tax breaks until we stop the spending. We tried that once. We are going to get the tax breaks, and we are going to stop the spending. And we are going to start representing the people that elected us instead of saying, we are the Government. We are not the Government. The people sent us up here to represent them.”