NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “As my colleague offers this scenario, I concur wholeheartedly. I also salute my colleague because, again, the temptation…”

“As my colleague offers this scenario, I concur wholeheartedly. I also salute my colleague because, again, the temptation is when you come to this town, and obviously there are some philosophical differences, I find that many of us can oftentimes end up in partisan arguments that are almost pointless games of what if, or what happened in the past. I think it is worthwhile and quite candidly refreshing, Mr. Speaker, that my colleague from Wisconsin comes here not to point fingers at that side of the aisle or necessarily to try and gain partisan advantage, but simply to offer a plan that people of all political labels should seriously consider as we say, OK, what is past is prolog, that has gone before, we can continue to play these games of revisionist history, or we can deal with the problems that we have encountered with the simple notion that my colleague and I learned in Scouts: Try to leave this a better place than we found it. Really is it just as simple as that; that we can play the hand we have been dealt, that yes, we have made some changes; that yes, those changes have us on the road to a balanced budget much more quickly; that yes, last week in the House Committee on Ways and Means we were able to fashion a tax bill that does not offer as much tax relief as I would like or my colleagues from Wisconsin or indeed many folks would like, but is an important first step. Moving on that, we can build.”