Roger Wicker: “I have to observe what a refreshing contrast we have seen tonight between the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs.…”

“I have to observe what a refreshing contrast we have seen tonight between the gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) and those who occupied the previous hour of Special Orders on this floor tonight because of the great difference in the philosophy of government evidenced by all of the speakers tonight. The gentlewoman from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn) has outlined a conservative philosophy of efficiency with the taxpayer dollars, not taking the first answer at face value but looking for savings wherever we can find them because that is what the taxpayers expect us to do. What we witnessed in the previous hour was an example of what we hear from our liberal Democrat friends year after year. They say we are not spending enough. Regardless of the fact that Federal spending almost always increases, it is never high enough for our friends on the Democrat side of the aisle. They always, always want to spend even more. Whatever tax level the President and the Republicans propose, the Democrats always want to tax more. They want to raise taxes on the American people.”