Political Quotes

“This really is too bad. These are some really good amendments. Apparently, we are not allowed to have those. We are just allowed to sing off of whatever hymnal they happen to hand us that has been preblessed by the law firm of Schumer, McConnell, Johnson, and Jeffries. That is unfortunate. Next, I want to call up Lee amendment No. 1860 for consideration, which proposes to strike all emergency spending designations from the bill. We cannot continue to spend under the guise of an emergency, especially when an actual emergency--a real-life, present-tense, presently located emergency--involving the security of our own Nation's national border is not even being addressed in this bill. It is not just that it is not being resolved. It is not even being addressed at all. This irresponsible practice has led to a ballooning national debt now nearing $35 trillion. It will soon blow past that. If this spending is necessary, it should be subject to the same budgetary constraints as all other government expenditures. This bill spends almost $100 billion--$100 billion we don't have--on top of the more than $100 billion Congress has already appropriated for the war in Ukraine over the last 2 years--in excess of $113 billion, if I am not mistaken. It will spend more money on interest payments on our national debt this year than on all base defense spending. And, within a year, I believe, we are likely to be spending well over $1 trillion a year just in interest on the debt.…”