On the recordNovember 15, 2011
I thank my good friend from Ohio. Thank you for holding this Special Order. The American people are ready for solutions, as you know. We are working so hard here in the House on coming up with those solutions. We will be voting on a balanced budget amendment--and I'm very excited about that--as has been required by the Budget Control Act that we passed in August. I'm here now as one of those new freshmen. And it is amazing to me and, of course, we all know that for over 200 years we've functioned without the Federal Government having to be held to--





