Mark Neumann: “I thought I would dedicate tonight's special order to the incredible things that are happening here in this community. I…”

“I thought I would dedicate tonight's special order to the incredible things that are happening here in this community. I could not get on a plane home because we got out of session too late tonight, so I am kind of like putting myself back in Wisconsin and looking at Washington and just looking at how some of the most incredible things in the world are going on right out here in this city today. I am going to start with one of the issues that was talked about today and actually we voted on today, and that is the IMF issue. Out in Wisconsin, if you said IMF to the average person out there, I am not sure they would even know what IMF is or what it is for or any of the rest of that. Frankly, I came out of the private sector and had no political experience, so today I had an opportunity to sit in on an educational session on what the IMF is and how it actually goes about lending money and what it is all about. At the end of the session, Jack Kemp was leading the session, but there were other experts there on the IMF, and at the end of the session I started asking questions that I think most people in Wisconsin, if they had sat in on this thing, would have logically started asking. The first one I asked is, how much have we given the IMF already of the taxpayers' money? Thirty-six billion dollars, is the answer. What do they want now? What are they asking for? They are asking for $18 billion more of the taxpayers' money.”