Political Quotes

“The American people have spoken loud and clear--they want Congress to stop the out-of-control spending that is bankrupting our Nation. During the campaign last year, Republicans called for reducing non- security, discretionary spending in Fiscal Year 2011 by $100 billion as a down payment toward the cuts needed to get America's finances back on track. Now that the campaign is over, and the American people have given us one more chance to make things right, they want to see us do what we said we would do. H. Res. 38 is a good first step--and I'm going to support it--but it does not get us the full $100 billion. Mr. Speaker, we need to keep the $100 billion promise we made to the American people! I filed an amendment last night that would keep the $100 billion promise. We would be debating that amendment right now, had this resolution come to the floor under an open rule. The good news is . . . and I applaud our leadership for taking this position . . . sometime over the next few weeks, we will have another chance to keep this promise as we debate the continuing resolution under an open rule. Though some say keeping the $100 billion promise would be too difficult, the folks I get the privilege to represent back home say ``This is the least we can do!'' They understand that $100 billion is only about one-thirteenth of the deficit. They understand that cutting $100 billion only gets us one- thirteenth of the way to a balanced budget.…”