Virginia Foxx: “I thank my colleague from South Carolina for handling the rule and for yielding 2 minutes. I want to say, first off…”

“I thank my colleague from South Carolina for handling the rule and for yielding 2 minutes. I want to say, first off, that we should all vote for this rule, and we should vote for the resolution that's going to come up later. I want to point out to my colleagues, again, that you are entitled to your opinion, but you're not entitled to rewrite history. The House passed a bill last week, a bipartisan bill. There's been so much touting of the Senate bipartisan bill, but not one mention by our colleagues on the other side of the aisle of the fact that we passed a bipartisan bill last week which did exactly what the President, Ms. Pelosi, and Mr. Hoyer--all those in charge of the Democrat Party--said they wanted, a 1-year extension of the policy that was passed last year. It also stopped raises for Congress and Federal employees and cut spending. What our colleagues on the other side of the aisle cannot do, and what the President seems incapable of doing, is cutting Federal spending, which is desperately what we need in this country. And I want to point out to my colleague from New York who says that we're doing nothing here today--we're not doing anything I believe is her comment. I want to point out that the Constitution, in Article I, section 1, divides the Congress of the United States, and in section 2 it talks about the House of Representatives.…”