Roy Blunt: “I come in support of my friend from Colorado's amendment that would reduce this by one-half of 1 percent below the…”

“I come in support of my friend from Colorado's amendment that would reduce this by one-half of 1 percent below the spending levels of last year. Over the last 6 months, the new majority has passed or paved the way for $103.5 billion of increased spending. I guess actually, to be technically correct, it's $103.4 billion. While $0.1 billion may not matter here, it sure matters in America. $103.4 billion in new spending. We have already enacted over a $6 billion increase in the continuing resolution for this year. We added $17 billion in unrequested funding to spend in the supplemental for this year. And now we're beginning this process of moving toward the additional $80.3 billion added to spending on this year's budget. $100 billion is a huge amount of money. Today we're considering the Interior and Environment appropriations bill that really makes a good portion of that increase happen right here. This bill increases spending by almost 5 percent over last year's level, $1.2 billion of new spending. And here, if you look at this spending thermometer, we're halfway up to what may be the taxpayer's boiling point. Somebody has to pay the bill. Somebody has to produce the revenue. Some American family is going to have to have a little less take-home pay because government wanted just a little bit more here, a little bit more there, a little bit more everywhere else.”