Jim Matheson: “I am real proud to be a part of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 33 fiscally-conservative Democrats who like to talk…”

“I am real proud to be a part of the Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 33 fiscally-conservative Democrats who like to talk about being fiscally responsible. We have been coming out here many times, Tuesday night. Every week we have been coming out here for the last few weeks, and we have been talking about issues of fiscal responsibility; and in particular, we have focused on what we see as a growing concern about increasing the debt that we incur in this country. Now, we have just been talking about this four-point plan; and I want to talk about one of those points, which is the notion that we need to climb out of this deficit ditch that we have gotten ourselves into in this country. The Secretary of the Treasury has come to Congress three different times now and said, we are really up against our debt limit; we need Congress to raise our debt limit, and we need Congress to raise it by $750 billion. Now, that is a lot of money. What is unfortunate is that that request comes in with no plan, no suggestion of how we are going to get out of this pattern of deficit spending.”