NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “The popular definition of insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a substantially different…”

“The popular definition of insanity is, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a substantially different outcome. And therein we find the horns of the dilemma for our friends on the left. Because they come to this floor and speak disdainfully of process, indeed, Mr. Speaker, inviting our constituents to believe that this is somehow a flimflam. But, Mr. Speaker, the sad fact is the flimflam came in the 40 years of one-party dominance that this Congress saw where our friends on the left continually spent not only the money raised in revenue for general purposes but revenue intended for Social Security, revenue intended for Medicare, revenue that drove us deeper and deeper and deeper into debt. And, Mr. Speaker, while we welcome their support, disdainful though it may be, while we welcome their support here and we also welcome their rhetorical endorsement now of debt retirement, we also point out that we stand in support of today's resolution because we intend to retire the debt.”