Chip Roy: “I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I know that he cares deeply about this issue and spends a whole lot of time…”

“I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. I know that he cares deeply about this issue and spends a whole lot of time working across the aisle and with our own Conference, trying to get this body to focus on this issue of spending. Frankly, that is on both sides of the aisle. We are sitting here now, $30.5 trillion of debt. That is a number that nobody in America can possibly understand what that means. We talk about it. We say it. We put charts up, but nobody knows. $30.5 trillion, if you set out to count to that, one Mississippi, it would take you 967,000 years. I mean, think about that. It is patently absurd. Yet, we are going to rack up another trillion and a half here in the next year, and then another couple of trillion. We are just going to keep piling it on. Interest rates are going up, and interest rates are going to keep going up, so that debt is going to pile up even further. The American people know this. They can't live their lives that way. Yet, here we are in this body, this so-called people's House, and we haven't had a single actual debate on spending in this body the entire time I have been here, much less this year. We just passed another milestone in this great body, the United States House of Representatives, in which we just spent the sixth year in which not one amendment was offered on the floor of this body in open debate, not one amendment.…”