On the recordSeptember 14, 2011
I know of the intentions of my colleagues across the aisle. You want to try to make America a better place. We had the prior speaker indicate that tremors were sent through the financial markets because some politicians, for their own purposes, put the financial integrity at risk. The Democratic speaker before that indicated that we should not go against the President's ability to protect the integrity of the United States. The Democratic speaker before that said that no one was apparently advising Republicans who had missed a truck payment. Things like that. Guess what. I know that was not intended to be misleading. I know the intent was not that, but the fact is some of us go home as we did in August. {time} 1410 Some of us get out into the far reaches, the most rural areas of America, our districts. We talk to those people. They're struggling with gas prices. They are having all kinds of trouble making ends meet, and they cannot understand how the people that are sent to Washington as representatives don't get it, how we could come up here and we can't control our spending.…





