Charles W. Stenholm: “reclaiming my time, these are loan funds. When loan funds are granted and paid back, there is no loss to the taxpayers…”

I must respectfully differ with the chairman of the Committee on Rules. The majority has justified the decision of the Committee on Rules to not allow the minority to offer an amendment because it is not a complete substitute. That…

That is the problem. That is the problem. It is a lack of understanding. PAYGO means you have got to come up with the spending cuts to take care of the amount of tax cut.

You have spent more, period, and that record stands up. All we are talking about today is a simple resolution saying, let us put us all under the gun. If you put your budget on the floor under pay-as-you-go, I will have to vote for it, if…

I will vote to increase the debt ceiling because to do otherwise would be irresponsible. But I think it is critical for us to seriously consider changing a little bit the game plan that we are under and that is reinstate pay-as-you-go. I…