Jeb Hensarling: “rarely in the history of America has a Congress spent more money with less accountability than this Congress is doing…”

“rarely in the history of America has a Congress spent more money with less accountability than this Congress is doing today: $463 billion with 1, count it, 1 hour of accountability. One hour of general debate. Mr. Speaker, that is $7.7 billion per minute of the people's money that is being spent here today. Families all across America will spend more time deliberating over the purchase of a new dryer than we will spend in debating how we spend $463 billion of their hard-earned money. Now, as the Democrats have taken over, Speaker Pelosi recently said, ``Democrats believe we must return to accountability by restoring fiscal discipline and eliminating deficit spending.'' This is fiscal discipline? This is accountability? Mr. Speaker, if this becomes law, everybody's share of the national debt will go up from roughly $28,860 to $30,399. This is cutting out deficit spending? This is accountability? This is fiscal responsibility? Real fiscal responsibility would have been for the Rules Committee to allow for the amendment from the gentleman from California (Mr. Campbell) to pass a true CR. That would have saved $6 billion. We need to vote this rule down.”