Now wait a minute. You have got me all confused, Congressman Gohmert because my understanding is, Republicans--from what the President has said--don't have any ideas. We don't have any bills. Of course he also said that he read our bills, so that was a little confusing too. But what you just outlined was basically getting up at 50,000 feet, looking at the problem and saying, We really don't need the government to get into all this detail. We simply take the amount of money that the government's spending right now. You break it into pieces, just designate the number of families in our country, and you've already got something that's going to work.
W. Todd Akin: “Now wait a minute. You have got me all confused, Congressman Gohmert because my understanding is, Republicans--from what…”
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The speaker is discussing Republican ideas and government spending in response to comments made by President Obama.
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