Jim Jordan: “Nevertheless, this bill increases spending $10.8 billion more than the President requested, 7.7 percent more than the…”

“Nevertheless, this bill increases spending $10.8 billion more than the President requested, 7.7 percent more than the President requested. It is $7 billion, or a 4.6 percent, increase over last year's appropriation. So my amendment is real straightforward. It says we are not going to go back to the President, we are not going to cut it, using the term ``cut'' to the President's requested level, we are going to go back to last year's funding level, a level funding amendment, a hold-the-line amendment, whatever you want to call it. It is certainly not a cut, although that has typically been the argument made by the other side of the aisle. I do it because we have a spending problem. We have a spending problem in this Congress and in this government, and there is going to come a day when we are going to have to deal with it.”