Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Madam Chair, let me start by thanking the Appropriations Committee. I do appreciate the work they have done. Look, this is unprecedented. Appropriators cutting tens of billions of dollars, getting to the $100 billion that is so important and what we told the voters we were going to do. I appreciate that. But I am still struck with this fact: One thing that the American people understand is that spending is out of control. There is no way around it. And several speakers have went through and listed this program that would be impacted, this agency that would be impacted. Look, I understand that. It's not pleasant to reduce spending. I get that. But I always bring it back to what the typical family has to do. Think about the family out there who is making $50,000 a year and spending $85,000. There are some good things that that other $35,000 is being spent on, probably some very good things. Maybe they are going out to dinner or they have an entertainment night, and they are doing good things, healthy things for their family. But the point is that they are spending more than they are taking in, and they have to cut back, even if some of those things are positive things. And the Federal Government is even worse because we are taking in $50,000 and spending $85,000 year after year after year, and the President's budget highlights that. We run trillion-dollar deficits for the next decade. We pile up more debt on top of the $14 trillion.…”