Jodey Arrington: “Lloyd Smucker is my brother. We came in together and served our first term in the 115th Congress. I know he is committed…”

“Lloyd Smucker is my brother. We came in together and served our first term in the 115th Congress. I know he is committed to this. I am proud and confident in his leadership on the Budget Committee. I just, again, share the sentiment of my colleagues and the sense of urgency--the sense of urgency. This crisis, this debt-related crisis, is very different from any other crisis we have experienced, in that, for example, with the pandemic and COVID, and the government's response to COVID which was sometimes the problem itself, but altogether, we were able to borrow and print enough money to bail out of it. But when the dominoes fall on a debt crisis, it doesn't matter how much China will lend us. It doesn't matter how much the Federal Reserve prints. They can print to their heart's desire. It won't fix it, and we will weaken this country, its global dominance, its global leadership, and the values that America represents to the entire world. So I am grateful to Mr. Smucker. Mr. Speaker, I yield to another colleague on the Committee on Ways and Means and from the Keystone State, another proud citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This guy has run a business. I think I have heard him say, and I will paraphrase, if he ran his business like the knuckleheads in Congress run this country, he would have been bankrupt before he could ever make payroll, let alone make a living. This is a man who is known for his Knute Rockne locker-room speeches like they did there in Notre Dame.…”