Jodey Arrington: “I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, to answer my friend's question about would we do this again on tax…”

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, to answer my friend's question about would we do this again on tax cuts, the answer is absolutely. We grew the economy. We created jobs. We lifted 6 million people out of poverty. And guess what--2 years in a row, we have record revenues in the Treasury coffers to bring down our deficits and our national debt, which by the way, is the greatest threat to this country and the prospects of our children inheriting the blessings of liberty and prosperity. Mr. Speaker, but instead of putting that as the central issue of debate today, we are here--we flew from all over the country--to vote to raise the debt ceiling, but it is buried in a bill that has family violence, nursing mothers, protecting old job applicants. I don't know what costume party I have arrived at here in Washington, but Halloween has come early here because nothing on this rule bill says, ``debt limit.'' It has nursing mothers--I know that my Democrat colleagues want to be involved in every facet and phase of the lives of the American people, including nursing mothers, but the reality is, we are broke. Our budget process is completely dysfunctional. We ought to be talking about spending caps, no budget, no recess, debt targets; things that we could work together on to actually get on a sustainable path to fiscal sanity.…”