On the recordDecember 12, 2012
I thank the lady for yielding back, and I have to tell you, I loved her Alice in Wonderland example. Sometimes I feel like we should read the ``Emperor Has No Clothes'' because we're spending money we don't have, or maybe ``Goldilocks and the Three Bears'' because it's never quite right what seems to be presented. By the way, Mr. Speaker, I know our colleagues appreciate Mrs. Lummis and what she does; but when she talks about the Nation's Treasurer coming forward and having something that never comes into balance, she knows what she was talking about. She was a State treasurer in Wyoming before she came to Congress. She knows these issues. She knows how you balance a governmental budget. She's an expert in these issues. And to have a budget where you say you never plan for it to balance? Well, when my children were growing up and they were struggling and something was going to be too much of a heavy lift or too hard, I would say, if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. For this great Nation, for the endurance of freedom, failure is not an option; and it is imperative that the fiscal house of this great Nation be put in order. Someone who knows how to do that so very well, who has done it as a wife, a mother, a State legislator and a small business owner is Mrs. Hartzler from Missouri, and I yield to you.
