John Culberson: “I think it's important for everyone to know the reason the House is considering this bill today is to put up another…”

“I think it's important for everyone to know the reason the House is considering this bill today is to put up another guardrail to show what the House cannot do. It's important in any compromise to understand what can and cannot be done. The new constitutional conservative majority in the House will not pass the Reid bill because of its devastating cuts to our U.S. military. The House is going to find a way to compromise with the Senate, but it is not going to include massive cuts to the military. As we've established, it's not going to include tax increases. It looks like it's going to include some select committee that's going to make recommendations to the Congress. We're going to find a way to make sure that American companies do not hit the brick wall of running out of the ability to borrow. But this is one of the most important debates, one of the most important votes we'll have in our brief time here in Congress is to make sure that we're protecting our kids and grandchildren from a crushing unaffordable level of debt. So we're working hard to find what the limits are of what the House and the Senate will do. We've got to have this vote today to show what the House will not do. And we're not going to cut the military, as the Reid bill would. Mr. McGOVERN. I yield myself 15 seconds. Madam Speaker, make no mistake about it. From day one, this Republican majority has put Medicare on the chopping block.…”