If Congress Wants to say maybe we should go to a more modest restaurant, thats fine. In order to curb our appetite, were not going to pay the people who already provided the insurance, already front of the money. That is not showing any discipline. That is just not meeting obligations. You cannot do that. That is not a credible way to run the government. We cannot going from crisis to crisis when there is a path in front of us that require stability and compromise. Thats how this goes. That is how this needs to work. Thank you, mr. President. Binding votes for the debt ceiling can sometimes be complicated. In previous aspects of American History, president reagan, president h. W. Bush, president clinton all signed Debt Reduction deals. You have done this three times. Four times was related to budget maneuvers. What many people are curious about is this new madam a desire on your part not to negotiate but that seems to conflict with the modern era of president s with the debt ceiling an
Schools, our communities, children and families must be safe. I respectfully ask my colleagues to make this issue of violence a priority and to support our nations leadership as they work through resolving this challenge which should not be difficult. If we compromise and keep focusing on saving lives. Madam chair, i pledge to support you and to support all my other colleagues with the Congressional Black Caucus to make a difficult task safe and to protect the lives of our children and families from gun fire and a culture of violence. Ms. Fudge i thank the gentlelady from ohio for participating. We certainly know how difficult this is going to be as we move forward, but im pleased. Thank you so much. I yield to the gentleman from new jersey who has joined our caucus. Representative donald payne junior. Pain pain mr. Speaker, let me mr. Payne let me begin by thanking my chairwoman, fudge for anchoring this evenings special order on the culture of violence. Coming together to address unv
That would be enough not only to stop the growth of our debt relative to the size of our economy, but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make in people and education and job training and science and medical research all the things that help us grow. Now, step by step, weve made progress towards that goal. Over the past two years, ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago, i signed into law more than 600 billion in new revenue by making sure the wealthiest americans begin to pay their fair share. When you add the money that well save in Interest Payments on the debt, all together that adds up to a total of about 2. 5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years not counting the 400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. So weve made progress. We are moving towards our ultimate goal of getting to a 4 trillion reduction. And there will be more deficit reduction when congres
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