Roy Blunt: “It shows we have been 800 days without a budget, and basically 800 days without any structure or process of how we spend…”

“It shows we have been 800 days without a budget, and basically 800 days without any structure or process of how we spend the people's money. It has been 800 days since the last time we could come up with an appropriations process, so maybe they will suggest we will modify that a little bit and move forward. But that clearly is not good enough. In that 800 days, as the Senator pointed out, we have gone to where we are--we have added 35 percent in a little over 800 days, in 2\1/2\ years, to the Federal deficit. This is not defending anybody else's effort to make the revenue and the expenditures of the Federal Government balance, but we can't continue to spend more than we have. If we don't have a plan, a blueprint, or if we don't have a budget like families have to have--if we don't have a budget at the very least, and we are managing our money, we write checks until the money runs out, and we can't do much more than that. We are at a point now that we are spending $3.7 trillion or $3.8 trillion and collecting $2.2 trillion. I am like Senator Cornyn on this topic--by the way, everybody else is too, including the Secretary of the Treasury. Nobody knows how much money this is, but we all know if someone is making $22,000 a year and spending $37,000 a year, and they have already borrowed more money than anybody should have ever lent them, they can't continue to do that. There has to be a point where they say: We are going to have to get real.…”