On the recordDecember 20, 2012
I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. I know that people may be confused by some of this debate, so I just want to bring some common sense to it. In every instance, A is the preferable option. Whether you get your ticket to heaven or you get to go free or you get the present you want under the Christmas tree, when somebody suggests to you option B, it's something less than the best. We have the very best country on the face of the Earth. We're the wealthiest, strongest, most powerful nation in the world. And what they're asking us to do is to choose, rather than a grand bargain to put our fiscal house in order, they want us to go with Plan B. I hope that the House would reject Plan B. Doing something less than our best as a Nation is not worthy of this House. It's not even worthy of the majority to bring this here today, because they know it's not going anywhere. We know it's not going anywhere. And if we want to move our country forward, which is what the American people voted for on the last Election Day, we need to choose the A option rather than Plan B. Plan B is not the way to go unless we're trying to get in second place to countries like China and others. If we want to stay in the lead, we need to get our fiscal House in order and reject this Plan B. The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time on the Democratic side has expired. The gentleman from Wisconsin has 2 minutes remaining.
