[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 62 (Thursday, April 11, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H2304-H2308]
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                             FAKE MESSAGING

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Ogles). Under the Speaker's announced 
policy of January 9, 2023, the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Schweikert) 
is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Virginia 
(Mrs. Kiggans).


                    Supporting U.S.-Israel Relations

  Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 
importance of the U.S.-Israel relationship. I urge Congress to support 
our ally now more than ever, and stress the need to defeat Hamas and 
all Iranian proxies.
  Israel is a strong and resilient country. Born in the aftermath of 
the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War, Israel's short 
history is full of successes. Israel has become one of the world's 
leading nations for innovation and technology. Its contributions to 
fields like cybersecurity, healthcare, and agriculture benefit 
Americans every day. Most importantly, Israel is and always will be our 
closest ally in the Middle East.
  I recently returned from a trip to Israel last week with several of 
my House colleagues, where we saw with our own eyes the devastation of 
the October 7 terror attacks. We visited the Nir Oz Kibbutz miles 
outside of Gaza and also visited the site of the Nova music festival, 
where hundreds of young people were murdered or kidnapped.

  We heard from the parents of an Israeli-American hostage who has been 
held captive by Hamas for 188 days. We saw burned homes with posters of 
hostages on the outside. We saw children's toys scattered throughout 
yards. We could almost feel and smell life there, the life that had 
been, that was no longer.
  Everything I saw and everything I learned verified the brutality of 
Hamas' unprovoked attacks and reinforced the need to support our 
longtime ally. The message we all walked away with was the same: Hamas 
must be eliminated.
  During our trip, we met with President Isaac Herzog and Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who shared with us the importance of 
continuing a strategic partnership between our two nations.
  The U.S.-Israel relationship is truly the embodiment of peace through 
strength. By standing together, we demonstrate to our adversaries that 
we will not be intimidated and that we will defend our shared values 
and interests.
  As malicious regimes like Iran continue their quest for nuclear 
capabilities and ramp up their backing of radical terror organizations, 
it is essential that America remain committed to ensuring a strong and 
secure Israel. This starts with defending Israel's right to self-
defense. Israel did not start this war, but they have a right to defend 
themselves from brutal terrorists.
  Hamas' horrific October 7 attacks, as well as the more than 170 
attacks against our own Armed Forces by Iranian proxies that have 
occurred since, are concrete evidence that our enemies are emboldened. 
Because of weak foreign policy choices made by this administration, 
starting with the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, I worry that

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our friends don't trust us as much, and our enemies certainly aren't 
fearing us as much. We must make smarter choices on the world stage to 
fight the evil that unfortunately exists in the global arena.
  As a Navy veteran who deployed twice in the Persian Gulf, I know how 
volatile this region is and understand that a key element of our own 
national security is the strength and security of Israel, the only 
democracy in the Middle East.
  Now more than ever, the United States must stand with Israel to 
ensure the safety of not only one of our closest allies, but also that 
of America and all freedom-loving people across the globe.
  I remain steadfast in my support for Israel and will do everything in 
my power to provide the Israeli people with the military and security 
assistance they need as they fight to defend their nation. In a world 
that gets more dangerous by the day, we cannot fail to project strength 
abroad. Standing with our allies and providing unwavering support is 
the right place to start.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Obernolte), my friend.


             Honoring the Life of Roberta Darlene McCarthy

  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life and mourn 
the passing of a dear friend of mine and my wife, Heather, Roberta 
Darlene McCarthy.
  Roberta, who was known to her friends as Bert, was born in Los 
Angeles and moved to Bakersfield, California, in 1946. She attended 
East Bakersfield High School, where she met her high school sweetheart 
and her future husband, Owen McCarthy.
  Owen was a captain in the Bakersfield Fire Department, and Bert spent 
much of her time in service to her community. They were two people who 
deeply wanted to help their friends and neighbors, which was a core 
value they passed on to their children, Michelle, Mark, and last but 
certainly not least, one of this Chamber's very own, the 55th Speaker 
of the House, Kevin McCarthy.
  Bert was instrumental in getting the Anti-Graffiti Program for Kern 
County started, and she volunteered for many charities in Bakersfield. 
Her passion for helping others meant that she often worked with some of 
the people who needed help the most, patients suffering from cancer.
  She regularly volunteered at the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer 
Center in Bakersfield and at the American Cancer Society, where she 
helped patients and their families fight cancer and overcome the many 
difficulties related to treatment.
  Bert was a strong mother and grandmother, whose family and their 
needs always came first. She loved her community and helping others, 
and she made everyone who met her instantly feel like they were talking 
to a family friend.
  Bert had such a gregarious and warm personality that even people in 
Washington who didn't care for her son, Kevin--and there were a few--
cared for Bert. She was always willing to lend a helping hand to those 
in need. Her selflessness knew no bounds, and her acts of kindness 
reverberated far beyond the confines of her immediate circle.
  Bert put her faith in God, and she knew one day she would be called 
to go up to Heaven and meet her creator.
  Bert's spirit will continue to live on in the memories of her 
children and their partners, her grandchildren, and everyone her life 
touched, including me and my wife Heather.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge that we not mourn her passing but, instead, 
celebrate the incredible legacy she left behind and carry forward her 
kindness, strength, and boundless love for others.
  I will miss her.
  Mr. SCHWEIKERT. Mr. Speaker, I am going to try doing something this 
evening. This is going to be difficult because I am going to try to 
explain something that has been annoying me and has me concerned that 
what I am learning is actually really dangerous to our society. Then we 
are going to walk through some of the latest budget numbers.
  If you don't have a life and you are someone that watches C-SPAN, you 
have had to deal with me coming up here once a week and functionally 
doing economic lectures. I don't mean to sound like a jerk. I am just 
trying to make it so there is an understanding of the actual fiscal 
situation we are facing as a country.
  A couple weeks ago, I did one, and boom. I didn't believe there were 
this many people that don't have a life and watch YouTube, but there 
were about 960,000 views. I have been blessed. This has happened 
multiple times over the last couple of years.
  Then I made a mistake. I actually looked at some of the comments. 
This started a couple years ago, and you are going: Well, that is not 
true. Well, that has to be a robot. Well, that is a bot. Well, why is 
that one written in horrible English?
  So we actually started a little project in our office a couple months 
ago trying to understand what foreign infiltration is doing in our 
ability to communicate in our society. How many bad actors are 
basically filling up our phones with crap, with things that are 
completely not true?
  It turned out we found academic article after academic article; 
Microsoft doing huge data analytics. There are all sorts of things that 
are out there that show, in many ways, we are at war. We don't actually 
understand it, but we have a war going on, and it is a war for hearts 
and minds. There are bad actors all around this world.
  The number of data points we have here is showing, particularly 
China, Russia, and Iran, and they are getting weaponized at a level I 
don't think any of us are intellectually ready for. AI is here, the 
plain language is here, and they are moving off of just your Facebook 
page or your social media accounts. It is now moving into fake text 
messages, all sorts of other ways where they are going to try to 
pollute and take down the West.
  We are not the only ones. We have map after map of what China just 
did to Taiwan. Now, Taiwan actually has built a policy on how to help 
combat it. When they get attacked on social media with fake stuff, they 
have teams that turn around and say: Okay, here is what they said. Here 
are the documents. Look it up yourself.
  I don't think we are ready for this. How do you and I and our 
brothers and sisters on the left and anyone that actually cares about 
this country have honest debates, honest discussions about, in my case, 
my fear of the crushing debt--we are going to walk through that--but 
other policy things where you actually lay out facts, lay out the 
information of what is going on, and 1\1/2\ minutes later, there is a 
bot that basically is putting out absolute crap?
  How do you hold a society together when you can't even agree on the 
baseline facts to build the debate from when article after article--
some of these are huge. These are the executive summaries. Some of the 
ones we have gone through are hundreds of pages of tracking entire 
troll farms. There is one document here saying that China may be 
spending multiple billions of dollars in influence operations here in 
this country to basically distort reality.
  The point I am going to right now--this seems like a weird place to 
go for a guy that wants to talk about the numbers and what is happening 
in our government--I am incredibly frustrated because I do not know how 
we have an honest debate when we have a disinformation wave coming at 
us from governments, let alone the private troll farms that do it just 
for clickbait to make money.
  However, how do you have an honest debate when our brothers and 
sisters or constituents at home or activists see things that are 
absolutely not true?
  We are going to have to find some way for us to have a commonality of 
these are the facts, or, as I hate to say, how do I make the public 
absolutely cynical?
  Don't believe me. Don't believe half the crap on your phone. Look it 
up yourself. Find things you trust and confirm it. We have article 
after article here documenting the troll farms, documenting the new bot 
farms, documenting the use of new AI. This one is actually sort of 
scary because it is going to be industrialized.

                              {time}  1745

  If you think things are screwy right now, wait a couple more months 
when we are in the middle of the election season. This government here 
has already decided they are--look what Russia has done to Ukraine. 
Look what the

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Palestinians and their teammates in Iran and, oddly enough coming 
through China, are doing to Israel.
  We are going to have to grow up and deal with the reality that as 
much of the information that is smashing into this country isn't real, 
and we are going to have to become much more discerning on it.
  Look, that is my caveat because we have such incredibly difficult 
things to deal with and there is hope, but it is hard. I have said a 
dozen times behind this microphone, a family saying, for every hard, 
difficult problem, there is a simple solution. That is absolutely 
wrong.
  It turns out complexity often requires complexity, but we have hope 
if we just get off our heinies and actually start to deal with the 
reality.
  Let's walk through some of the reality of United States math right 
now. We made this chart today. It is accurate, but it is also missing a 
couple things.
  The point I will make here is--you see this blue area? That is what a 
Member of Congress gets to vote on. That is Defense and what we call 
nondefense discretionary, such as the Park Service, the FBI, the State 
Department. You see all that red? None of that gets a vote from a 
Member of Congress.
  The vast majority of our spending is on autopilot, and this interest 
number here is actually the net number, not the gross number, because 
there is another $300 billion or so that is actually borrowed from the 
trust funds that we still have to pay back. We still have to pay 
interest. We sort of hide that where other European countries actually 
have to tell the truth about their total borrowing.
  How do we as Members of Congress go home and explain every dime you 
as a Member of Congress vote on is borrowed?
  If you use my projections on the borrowing for this year, $800 
billion of Medicare is borrowed, and the economy is actually okay. How 
can we be at the current GDP--and I didn't check GDP now on the Atlanta 
Fed before I walked in here, but I think it was like 2.4, 2.5, which is 
actually a fairly decent GDP growth considering where interest rates 
are and those things.
  Yet, a couple days ago, we were breaking in--forgive me. I am going 
to do this slightly out of order to make a point--nope. I don't even 
have it. Somehow the board come.
  In the last week, we have had two times where we went over $100,000 a 
second in borrowing. Every second, we were borrowing over $100,000. It 
came down a little bit today. Today, I think we are back to $98,000 a 
second, and that is over a 12-month period. That is 365 days of 
borrowing, averaging it out, dividing it down so you know what it is 
per second.
  If I had come to this body a couple years ago and said, ``We are 
going to be borrowing $100,000 a second,'' you would have thought I was 
out of my mind, but we are doing it. $100,000 a second is our 
borrowing, and there is my anger. We will have honorable debates here 
on this and that, but we are often debating over a couple minutes' 
worth of borrowing because we are unwilling to talk about the driver of 
debt. It is interest and healthcare.
  There is not a lot we can do about interest because here is how bad 
the interest numbers continue to be for us. I did this board a month 
ago and I was saying my math is gross interest, which will be $1.67 
trillion and I got some crap for it: ``How can you say that?''
  Well, you will be happy to know that yesterday the Treasury announced 
that I was wrong. Interest will be $1.1436 trillion. I underestimated 
it, and if you saw what interest rates did this week with the higher 
inflation data, the number is going to go higher.
  Let's understand the hierarchy right now. Social Security is going to 
spend $1.450 trillion, but that is off tax receipts and the trust fund.
  Now, the trust fund is going to be gone in 8, 9 years, but right now 
it is self-contained. Interest is the second biggest spend in this 
government. The third is Medicare. Defense is now number four. Now 
because I know every Member of Congress sits around and doesn't have a 
life and reads--this is the MedPAC report from last week. Yes, I am an 
idiot. I read it.
  There is one thing in here and I wanted to make the point because I 
am trying to get my head around this. In 2022, way back then, Medicare 
was 13 percent of functionally income tax, corporate tax receipts.
  In 5 more budget years, Medicare spending will be 22 percent of all 
income tax, all corporate taxes. That is a remarkable movement.
  We had a data point a couple days ago saying Medicare spending is up 
10 percent this year, but we are not allowed to talk about that. It is 
an earned benefit. You worked in America--it is just like Social 
Security. You worked your 40 quarters, you earned it, but that doesn't 
mean we have to lie to each other.
  Just as I am angry about the foreigners polluting our information 
set, we do something similar. We avoid telling the truth because the 
math is uncomfortable, and we are talking trillions and trillions and 
trillions of dollars here. Maybe the debate on this floor shouldn't be 
rounding errors, it should be taking on the actual drivers of our debt.
  Now, back to the point. Even here I am actually having to adjust, so 
now we actually believe what we call net interest. Let me explain the 
difference between gross and net. Net interest is where we have to sell 
bonds. We have to get your pension system, your personal wealth, a nice 
family in Japan buying U.S. debt.
  Gross is where we sell the bonds over here and then over here we are 
borrowing from the trust funds, even though we have a little technical 
problem. The transportation trust fund, the Medicare Part A trust fund, 
the Social Security trust fund, all are gone this decade. Well, in the 
next 9 years, they are all gone.
  It is math. Is it acceptable that this has become a math-free zone? 
And these numbers, when I was starting to show these a couple months 
ago and the inbound silliness we would get, ``stop making up numbers.'' 
Yeah, you are right. I missed them. I wasn't dark enough.
  CBO will be updating all these numbers because it turns out interest 
has gotten more expensive. Today's interest rate, we are back up to the 
highs, almost to the highs of last November. They haven't been going 
down, they are going the other direction.
  You all saw the head of Chase Bank, Jamie Dimon, in part of his 
report to shareholders this last week, saying his economists believe 
there is a very good chance that interest rates are going higher.
  Look, I will put these down and I will try not to hit anyone with 
them.
  Please look at this chart. Please look at this. You see this line 
over here? This is 1975 to 2001, the average on U.S. sovereign debt was 
7\1/2\ percent. The average for all those years was 7\1/2\ percent. 
That was actually the average considering--now, I accept that has some 
of the 1980s, Paul Volcker, but that was the average.
  Then we go to 2001 to 2022, absolutely suppressed interest rates. We 
lived in a fantasy world. It was down to 2.2. Okay. That is your 
juxtaposition. What is the real interest rate? What is the real cost of 
money here? We are only right now at 3.3. Our economists and the Joint 
Economic Committee, Republican side, and even myself, we are trying to 
figure out where it is going. We don't think it is going down.
  We need to somehow understand the reality. If you are borrowing 
$100,000 a second, do you think there is lots of liquidity out there to 
see your interest rates come falling? What would happen to the United 
States debt when you functionally have a total of 34.7; actually in May 
we go to 35, in September we will be over 36, because we are clicking 
off about a trillion dollars of borrowing about every 110, 115 days 
right now.
  We need to think about that. What happens if the interest rates go 
anywhere back to the historic norm? Are we allowed to tell our 
constituents the truth? It breaks my heart because there is a path, but 
you have to be willing to be disruptive, almost revolutionary. You have 
to be willing to be moral in saying, if these are the cost drivers, the 
actual cost drivers, not the theatrics--I always love it when I go and 
read some of the comments like ``if you just got rid of your 
salaries,'' fine. Maybe we are overpaid--trust me. For our work 
product, we are--but it is 2.6 seconds a day of all borrowing. Foreign

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aid is about 5 days of borrowing. There is the fantasy. And then there 
is the other side, the Democrats. ``Well, tax rich people.'' Okay. 
Fine. Have at it. I have done the economic studies multiple times here 
on the floor showing that you take your own plans, $400,000 and up and 
maximize every tax. Maximize estate tax, capital gains tax, income 
taxes, just do it all. Maximize it to the revenue producing maximum and 
then do the economic adjustment, you get 1\1/2\ percent of GDP. That is 
the studies, 1\1/2\ percent of GDP. We are borrowing over 9.6 right 
now.
  If someone out there is brilliant and you have an easier way to 
explain this, please send it to me because I feel like I am just 
treading water here while people look at me and go, ``Oh, Schweikert, 
you did another speech on the floor. That was interesting. I didn't 
watch, though.''
  You start to understand that when you do the comparisons of where we 
are heading--this is one--when you start to see numbers saying in 9 
budget years you are going to have $60, $62 trillion of borrowing--that 
is what we are trying to compare.
  We are slicing the difference between our projection and the CBO 
baseline, but the punch line here, the President's budget in 9 budget 
years has us at $70 trillion and the CBO has us at $62 trillion. That 
is 9 budget years from now.
  Am I the only idiot here that is terrified? This is moral? But we are 
going to engage in theatrics that is not even a days' worth of 
borrowing, maybe minutes' worth of borrowing because that is what we 
are willing to debate over because we are terrified to stand in front 
of our audiences and say, unless we revolutionize the cost of 
healthcare, I can't make the numbers work.
  So what are you willing to do?
  And that is with all the leftists taxes. You start to also look--
because the other day, I was taking inbound from one of my Democrat 
friends--well, you had the tax cut. Have you seen your own numbers on 
even just the Inflation Reduction Act? Seriously, where you are right 
down here, oh, that is only going to cost $20 billion and the next year 
will be $14 billion, and the actual now number projections where some 
of the years it is over $120 billion outlays. That is cash money, 
subsidies to corporate America, they basically bought the love of 
multinational corporations. God bless them.

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  It is more than the entire 10-year cost of tax reform, which actually 
spread out wealth, but they can't admit that.
  I am breaking one of my own rules because I keep coming here and 
saying maybe we should spend less time litigating the past and deal 
with the reality of our demographics and the math right now. Let's take 
a look at some of the things that we are up against.
  Why is the public so cranky? Seriously, I try to have this 
conversation with folks at home. I am blessed. I represent the Phoenix-
Scottsdale area. If you have to represent a district, I represent one 
of the most beautiful spots, particularly in the winter months. I 
represent a fairly prosperous district. I represent a really well-
educated district, a really entrepreneurial district.
  A lot of my folks appear, on the surface, to be doing fairly well in 
life, but they are stressed out of their minds because, in my district, 
we have had the highest inflation in the continental United States. If 
you do not make 23.6 percent more money today than you did the day 
President Biden took office, you are poorer.
  No matter what economic data the clown show--excuse me, body of 
Congress--wants to talk about over and over: Oh, jobs are this. 
Unemployment is this.
  This is what matters. When you actually look at the data of those who 
are nonsupervisory or supervisory, today they are poorer, even when you 
put back in wage growth. Our brothers and sisters in America are poorer 
today.
  In my district, it is worse. I have a prosperous district. Do you 
want to understand why people are struggling, angry, and frustrated? 
Maybe an honest conversation that we made them poorer.
  Here is a bit of an intellectual tease: What is the biggest tax hike 
in modern history? Come on, what is the biggest tax hike in modern 
history? Let's work through this. If I came to you right now and said 
the thousand dollars, the hundred dollars, the dollar you have saved 
up, and over the next 3 to 3\1/2\ years we are going to basically take 
away almost a quarter of its value, we made you poorer, right? That is 
called inflation.
  Where did that value go, though? It went to the debtors. Who is the 
biggest debtor in the world? The United States.
  We functionally transferred your wealth through inflation and 
devalued the debt. The problem is now we hit the interest rate cycle, 
so we were devaluing the debt by inflation. The financing of our debt 
explodes, as well as the fact--and this is one that is a little 
trickier to talk about. Social Security, Medicare, these other things 
have kickers for inflation in there. You get a short-term benefit. You 
saw a little spike about a year, year-and-a-half ago when debt to GDP, 
even though the debt was higher--the GDP had sort of grown, but it is 
because of the differential because of inflation.
  Now, all that benefit is gone. Now, it is getting really ugly because 
the financing of the debt--I just showed you--if you do the gross 
number, is on its way to $1.2 trillion just this year. Interest now is 
the second biggest expense in our government.
  In a little while, you have to understand--back to my fixation that 
we need to find some way to add technology, disruption, cures to 
disrupt the cost of healthcare because guess what, Mr. Speaker? In a 
few years, Medicare even passes Social Security in total spending.
  The hierarchy used to always be Social Security is number one, 
defense is number two, Medicare is number three, and interest was 
actually way down here. Now, interest is number two, but Social 
Security is number one.
  In just a few years, healthcare costs will be the number one expense 
in this country--just Medicare. This isn't adding in the Indian Health 
Service, the VA, Medicaid.
  Now, look, much of it is demographics. This is where maybe there is a 
problem that we are so busy attacking the left, and the left is so busy 
attacking us. The fact of the matter is, people getting older, moving 
into their earned benefits, is that Republican or Democrat? It is 
demographics.
  We know it is going to happen. We have known there were 67 million 
baby boomers for how long? Sixty-five years. We did brilliant planning 
for it, didn't we? Understanding charts like this, it is coming, it is 
in front of us, and we will do everything we can to ignore it.
  This chart is a little hard to read, but I am trying to make a point. 
This uses some of the math from our colleagues on the left. As we get 
near the 8-year window, 10-year window, we get back closer to 18 
percent--this is just structural, 18 percent of GDP coming in as taxes. 
Yet, the debt continues to grow even with that because interest keeps 
growing as well as the other expenses, particularly driven by, once 
again, healthcare costs.
  Unless we are willing to tell the truth, how do you take on the 
problem?
  This one is a little more for my Republican brothers and sisters. In 
2023, how many times have you heard one of us get up and say 
``growth''? Growth is incredibly important, and you can spike growth by 
cleaning up the immigration system and moving to a talent base, not 
importing massive poverty. You can do other things, such as getting 
regulations--adapt to using technology as much of your regulator 
instead of armies full of bureaucrats and file cabinets.
  There are dozens of things you can do policywise to create growth, 
but if you had someone who said, ``We will just grow ourselves out of 
borrowing $100,000 a second,'' they are not good at math.
  Here is the basic simple rule: GDP, the size of the economy, in 2023 
grew a trillion and a half dollars. However, you do understand, for 
that growth, you only get 17, 18, maybe even 19 percent of that in tax 
receipts. The growth is wonderful, but it is not dollar for dollar. I 
will get people who say, okay, you guys borrowed $2.5 trillion, but the 
economy grew $1.5 trillion. Yes, it did grow $1.5 trillion, but I only 
get 17, 18, 19 percent of that in tax receipts. Do you understand the 
scale of growth we would have to have for the tax receipts to come 
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would require elementary school math, wouldn't it? Sorry.

  Back to the baseline. Our brothers and sisters are struggling. If you 
are in markets like I am, where housing costs have gone up 
dramatically, parts of your food budget have gone up dramatically, we 
have Americans who are struggling. I showed the inflation numbers, and 
into that headwind, we have to find a way to stabilize the borrowing to 
that growth of the economy. At the same time, we have to find a way to 
get beyond the liars out there that are trying to pollute the debate 
because they want to see this country fail.
  If we don't step up and do our job, start telling people the truth, 
realize there is a path to stabilize our debt to GDP--and this could be 
a stunning century for America, but my fear is when I look at the debt 
spiral that is coming, if interest rates continue to go where they are 
going, you have maybe 3 years, 5 years. At that point then most of what 
this government does is we have handed over the power of this 
government to the bond market because the bond market will be in charge 
of us. The bond market will decide what our priorities are. They will 
control the price of our debt. They will control our resources.
  Make a decision: Are you willing to act like adults, digest facts, 
vet, double-check your facts, and then demand Members of Congress start 
thinking like--it is impolite to curse behind the mike--start thinking 
in a way where they are willing to do difficult things that are 
accurate on their calculator and not their feelings? You can't make 
public policy with feelings and have it actually work out on your 
calculator. As the old family saying for the Schweikert household goes, 
the math will eventually win.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

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