Mark Neumann: “all I know is in the appropriations process right now we have made the decision to go forward with building more…”

“all I know is in the appropriations process right now we have made the decision to go forward with building more buildings. In the debate we have had here in the 3 years since I have been here about the draconian cuts imposed on America by the Republican Party, what people have failed to mention is that in fact, spending has kept going up faster than the rate of inflation. What they actually meant by "draconian cuts" is that instead of letting spending go up at twice the rate of inflation, we were going to stop the growth rate and at least hold it to the rate of inflation. When the gentleman talks about selling a building or building new buildings and so on, we need to understand that government spending is still going up at the rate of inflation. That is why they are struggling to sell off a building. If we actually got to a point where we went after this waste and fraud and abuse in this government so we actually could reduce spending in real dollars, so that it was no longer going up as fast as inflation, which is what I think all 3 of us standing here would like to see, that is when we can actually do some tax reduction for the American people that is real, and we can also start doing things like eliminating some of the government property that we no longer need.”