Jodey Arrington: “Amen. Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Mann for his contributions to this important conversation with the American…”

“Amen. Madam Speaker, I thank Representative Mann for his contributions to this important conversation with the American people. I am proud to have also met and befriended a gentleman from the great State of Utah. The first time we met, I talked about this bipartisan effort to get at the root causes of this broken budget process and reach across the aisle and simply force us, through the right incentives, to be responsible stewards, to get budgets out on time with budget outcomes that would reduce the debt. I remember that Representative Moore lit up at that dinner meeting and said: Sign me up. Ever since then, he has been on a mission. He has worked with his constituents, put a task force together. He is prepared, as he looks at joining the Ways and Means Committee, which, by the way, when you look at 70 percent of our budget on auto-spend--that is, entitlement, mandatory programs. The vast majority of those, certainly the big drivers of our debt, are under the auspices and the authority and jurisdiction of the Ways and Means Committee. I will heartily welcome him to the team in that regard. I appreciate his passion for this issue. Again, we will get an opportunity to serve and lead and govern, and we are going to need people like him to not only sound the alarm but assemble the team of people, the coalition of the willing, on both sides of the aisle, to do the right thing by the American people. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Utah (Mr.…”