Mr. Speaker, would the gentleman from Arizona confirm for the audience or explain what OASI and DI mean?

I don't think you can completely explain the green part of sequestration. As you can see, it moves above the red line on occasion about 2017.

More importantly, for this illustration, it is as important that we were telling the public--because the CBO projection told us that it was going to be 4.5, 4.4, but we were basing all our estimates on those numbers. We are basing our…

They want to cut something. Why do you spend money on--I don't know. They call them Obama funds. Or why do you spend money on foreign aid? If we just cut that, we don't have to pay for people to hate us. They will hate us for free. It all…

Many of your constituents hear, from time to time, whether it is the President, people on the other side--and, frankly, people on our side--say that we are reducing the deficits. They hear this. If they don't come to your townhall meeting…

So you took $114 billion out of OASI, which is the big Social Security? We took it out of that and put it into disability insurance because disability was going to be bankrupt while we stand here today?

But the bigger point of this slide, if you will, is that even with sequestration, you can see that, first of all, it is not different from the normal program spending. It has absolutely nothing to do with the huge portion of spending which…

We have a tendency in Congress--quite honestly, we have a tendency as Americans--with our domestic and foreign policy, to just pretend that these things aren't happening.

Right, and the population growth for those people who will be receiving benefits.

Mr. Speaker, I would like to say thank you to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee) and the gentlewoman from New Jersey (Mrs. Watson Coleman), my good friend, for the fine work they did on this bipartisan, noncontroversial bill that…

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).