On the recordFebruary 2, 2012
My hero, Thomas Jefferson, always said that if you apply core principle to any problem, no matter how difficult, the knot will always untie itself. It was true then, and it's true today. If we would apply the core principles of the Constitution to the problems we face as a government, the knot will untie itself. And here just applying commonsense principles to our fiscal problems, the knot will untie itself. This is a remarkably simple and remarkably effective reform. We will no longer assume inflation into the beginning of our spending bills on the Appropriations Committee. Now, unfortunately, we only control on the Appropriations Committee about 39 cents out of every dollar of spending the Federal Government does. But that 39 percent that we do control will no longer increase automatically year to year. These procedural institutional reforms that House conservatives are enacting into law will make a dramatic difference in changing the direction of our Nation from insolvency and bankruptcy to getting back on a path to a balanced budget. I'm very proud to help our colleagues, my chairman, Paul Ryan, Mr. Woodall, and Mr. Gohmert of Texas in enacting this fundamental, commonsense reform to put America back on track to a balanced budget.…
