NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, lest there are those who join us who believe this is simply a statistical argument, I would urge them to…”

“Mr. Speaker, lest there are those who join us who believe this is simply a statistical argument, I would urge them to think again. Because, as my colleague from Minnesota points out, this translates to a mortgage on the future of our children. A lot of things have changed in the 3 years since a new common-sense, conservative Congress came to town. I can remember the almost dark humor that was employed that surrounded an item that each of us receive here in the Congress of the United States. It is our voting card. And the joke, which really was not so funny, that went along with this voting card went as follows: The people here in Washington, inside the Beltway, said, oh, well, you now have the world's most expensive charge card because when you received your copy as a Member of Congress, it came with a debt in excess of $5 trillion.”