On the recordJuly 27, 2021
I would like to spend my 2 minutes speaking directly to the American people. We talk a lot in here to each other and about each other and to one another and behind each other's back, but I want to speak to the American people because they are the ones who need to call their Members of Congress. You understand that when you increase budgets 30 to 40 percent, and then my amendments are a 20 percent cut, that somehow that is destroying America? We know better. You, as the American people, know that you have to create a budget. Your counties create a budget. The cities create a budget. Your States create a budget. The only place in this free United States of America that no budget was created for the last 3 years is here in the United States Congress. My team on the RSC Budget Committee produced the only budget that was floor-ready for a vote, and the Speaker chose not to put it on the floor. Why, you ask? Well, I am going to answer the question. It is because the Democrats didn't want you to see what fiscal accountability and responsibility are. They didn't put their own budget on the floor when they had control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. They could have passed a budget without one single Republican vote. Ask your Member of Congress why they didn't produce a budget. Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues to be fiscally responsible and accountable to your money, the taxpayer's money.
