On the recordJune 21, 2022
I thank my friend from Wisconsin for his words. What you just heard is what most of America experiences in our individual families, our businesses, our cities, and our States. They have to balance their budget. It is hard work. It doesn't know any partisanship. It is constitutional and has to be done. One of the first, primary things we should be doing as Members of Congress is being good stewards of American taxpayer dollars. But what I fear is that after people have been here for a period of time we lose sight of that. It is not our money; it is the American people's money. We need to be accountable to that. We need to not be running up $30 trillion debts and another $15 trillion on the horizon with the President's budget, the only Democrat budget that has been put out, that increases the debt to $45 trillion in the next 10 years, assuming he can get $7 trillion in additional taxes out of small businesses and individuals in America by allowing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act's tax cuts to expire. The American people deserve better. We in Congress need to work hard together. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Joyce), my dear friend from Pennsylvania's 13th District, who is on the Energy and Commerce Committee and a fellow classmate of mine.
