Adam Smith: “I started hearing some whining and started hearing some people say, ``But we cannot do that,'' from both sides of the…”

“I started hearing some whining and started hearing some people say, ``But we cannot do that,'' from both sides of the aisle eventually. Standing here today to see that we really can do it, the money is gone, and you add that to the fact that we reduced our own franking, I am now convinced, as well as the American people should be convinced, that this Congress is serious about cleaning house. We are going to go into a budget cycle that is going to be hard, because we are going to have to make a lot of hard decisions, and every patriotic American is going to sacrifice something as we work to reduce a nearly $200 billion overspending problem a year. But, first of all, we stood and we did it ourself. I think this is a good faith effort, but a very deep cut to this body, that the American people will appreciate us taking, and I want to commend the Chair and the bipartisanship of this group, because we really did it, and it shows again that you can trust this Congress to do what we promised. We keep our promises.”