Alan Nunnelee: “The House has before it today an important question, but it's not a new question. It's a question of old. This day I put…”

We can't continue to spend this kind of money, we can't continue to grow this.

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.

I share your optimism that we are going to deal with this issue of sequestration, and I am going to be doing everything I can to make sure it does not happen.

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…