Political Quotes

“The gentlewoman and a number of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle raise issues about the fact that we are using appropriations bills to address some of these issues. First of all, my constituents and most Americans I know of care how taxpayer dollars are used. They want these dollars to be used efficiently and effectively, particularly when we are running $2 trillion deficits. They don't want us to fund things like health equity offices, when, in fact, we are bleeding money out of every pore of our body, and we have got a diminishment of our debt. We have Moody's last week saying, oh, wait, we are going to just reduce America's debt rating. We have got the Treasury unable to carry out an auction last week because our debt is so high that people are starting to question investing in American debt. Why? Because we are irresponsibly spending money we don't have for utter nonsense and garbage. That is what the American people see every single day, why are you spending money on these absurd things, these absurd programs? That is the truth. The American people are sick of it. How about we actually authorize something, by the way, instead of just doing stuff in appropriations? We haven't even authorized DHS since we created it 20 years ago. It is absolutely absurd. {time} 0000 I can't even tell you the last time we authorized HHS. It is not even clear-cut because there are so many programs in HHS.…”