Alan Nunnelee: “Thank you, Mr. Harper. Now I would like to call on my friend Mr. Lamborn, the gentleman from Colorado.”

I want to thank the chairman for yielding. Everything they told us when they passed this law has turned out not to be true: if you like your own health plan, you can keep it. This isn't a tax hike. Prices will go down $2,500 a year. It…

I want to thank the chairman for yielding, but more importantly for his leadership. The people sent me to Congress to help preserve liberty for future generations by limiting government and growing the economy. There's not a single law…

The real debt ceiling that any family, that any business or any government faces is when we get to the point when we can no longer find people to lend us money at a rate we can afford to repay.

So to wrap it up, is it accurate to say that in the 1980s, they got the geology and science right; they just did not contemplate the politics?