Randy Tate: “once again on the issue of welfare for lobbyists, the facts remain, the President of the United States does not want to…”

“once again on the issue of welfare for lobbyists, the facts remain, the President of the United States does not want to balance the budget. My good friends across the aisle are not serious about wanting go balance the budget. The fact is the Republicans have shown a proposal to want to balance the budget. What I do not understand is when we are $4.9 trillion in debt, and if my daughter Madeleine continues to live to 72, which she will live probably to 172, she will have to pay in her lifetime $187,150 just to balance the budget. So why in the world would we subsidize lobbying, when we have all of these other needs out there? Why would we provide taxpayer funds for lobbyists? Basically in my district, as you can see, they are running advertising, $85,000 in television ads and Medicare ads and telephone calling. But it is the National Council of Senior Citizens that shows up again as one of those groups that receives over $70,000.”