Jodey Arrington: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, to the gentlewoman's point about working together, Democrats did not…”

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, to the gentlewoman's point about working together, Democrats did not offer a hand of bipartisanship in this ram-and-jam job on the $2 trillion bailout bill. They even lost Democrats on it. So they didn't work with us. It was a pure partisan play, and there is a reason for that. It is mostly unrelated to COVID. It is bailout galore. It is a wish list of the liberals in this House, and they just pushed it through and called it, in disguise, COVID relief. But the fundamental principle we are talking about today is paygo. This is a law passed by Democrats, signed by a Democrat President. It says, fundamentally--and the American people understand this--if you spend beyond your means, you have got to find a way to pay for it. You have got to offset it or you go into debt. Mr. Speaker, the American people, if they don't pay their bills, they get their water turned off or their electricity turned off. The IRS will hunt them down and put them in jail if they don't pay their taxes. They will have their mortgage foreclosed, their cars repossessed. That is what happens to the American people when they don't pay their bills. President Obama, when he signed the law, said, You can't spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. I agree with him. Ms. Pelosi, our Speaker, gave a speech and she gave glowing points as she embraced wholeheartedly and full-throatedly this paygo. She said it is important `` . . .…”