Paul Ryan: “This bill includes $16 billion in non-war, non-emergency spending. It blows through the $6.45 billion reserve fund that…”

“This bill includes $16 billion in non-war, non-emergency spending. It blows through the $6.45 billion reserve fund that the incumbent budget resolution has for emergencies. It completely puts aside the rules that govern whether or not and how we fund emergency spending. We put in these rules last year, which to the majority's credit continued this year, that said you can't just tuck anything in an emergency spending bill. It actually has to really be an emergency. Well, they have put those rules aside. We have got $16 billion of this stuff in here. But the real problem I have with this bill, Mr. Speaker, the real concern I have is the signals it sends. We are telling our troops, we are telling our men and women in uniform in harm's way in Iraq, you have got 2 months, 2 months of funding, but we are letting any Member of Congress open up the bidding war and put $16 billion of stuff in here to fund them for a lot longer than 2 months.”