Jim Saxton: “I have heard people say over and over again in the 10 years I have been in this House, particularly when they are back…”

“I have heard people say over and over again in the 10 years I have been in this House, particularly when they are back in their districts: You are sending me to Washington, and I am going there for one main purpose. I am going to balance the budget. I am going to help the people in the Congress. We are going to change things. We are going to do it differently, and we are going to balance the budget. I have heard that enough times to say that if I had $5 for every time I have heard people say that, I could give that to the Government and balance the budget. That is fact. People talk about it all the time. But the fact of the matter is we all come here with good intentions, and most of us do, but when we get here, the process proceeds as normal. I suggest, therefore, in order to get this job done, we need to change the rules. We need to change the rules so we have to balance the budget like many of the States do and like families and like people all over our country in businesses do as well.”