Jodey Arrington: “I thank the gentleman from Michigan, my friend, for his comments. I am, again, proud to serve with him, and he brings…”

“I thank the gentleman from Michigan, my friend, for his comments. I am, again, proud to serve with him, and he brings such reason and common sense. He is right to say that it is not a partisan issue and that the debt and those things that have led to this massive $30 trillion, over 120 percent of the size of our entire economy, exceeding World War II with our entire debt--and by the way, in peacetime. He is right. We have to have an honest conversation with ourselves before we have an honest conversation with the American people, and both parties have contributed to this mess. Until we decide to accept that and take ownership of it, we will never lead us to the path of restoring that responsibility, that good footing, and the prospects of having saved this country and our children and grandchildren from the disastrous, calamitous future if we don't. I appreciate his approach to it. We are reaching out to our colleagues, our Democrat colleagues, to fix some of these broken systems, the perverse incentives that let us get away with this reckless and irresponsible process that we call budget and appropriations. Nowhere else in the world can you do what we do. But the results are indisputable. You get a broken process, a dysfunctional system like we have, and you are going to get broken outcomes. Look no further than the debt clock, and look no further than CBO's 10-year forecast: $16 trillion more over the next 10 years of just the public debt.…”