Tim Ryan: “That is a great point, and I thank the gentleman. So, in this Congress, the Democrats have tried to reimplement this…”

“That is a great point, and I thank the gentleman. So, in this Congress, the Democrats have tried to reimplement this pay-as-you-go system because Bush's Congress, Bush's House, Bush's Senate, President Bush, they got rid of the PAYGO requirements. They said we did not need them anymore, and the Democrats, time and time, you know, we hear a lot about, well, what is the Democrats' plan? This is the Democratic plan: We want to implement PAYGO rules back into the United States Congress to rein in this spending. John Spratt from South Carolina, our ranking Democratic member on the Budget Committee, tried to put a substitute amendment in on the 2006 budget resolution, and that amendment failed. Zero Republicans voted to reimplement the PAYGO rules. {time} 1600 We tried again with another Spratt substitute amendment, H. Con. Res. 393. I am not making this up. This happened. It is in the Congressional Record, Mr. Speaker. The Members can go and look and check it out. It failed 194-232. Zero Republicans voted to reimplement the PAYGO rules. Mr. Thompson from California tried; Mr. Stenholm, a former Member from Texas, he tried. Mr. Moore from Kansas, he tried. We have been trying to implement fiscal restraint on Bush's Congress, and they refuse to accept it time and time again. Now, the funny part about it, and not really funny ha-ha, just funny peculiar, is that this is the same outfit that campaigned in 1994, Mr.…”