I Am Not For Raising Taxes In

Look, We Know We Screwed Up When We Were In The Majority. We Fell In Love With Power. We Spent Way Too Much Money - Especially On Earmarks. There Was Too Much Corruption When We Ran This Place. We Were Guilty. And That's Why We Lost.

You Know, We Have A Fiscal Train Wreck Before Us. And Unless We Act, And Act Deliberately, We're Not Going To Enable Our Kids To Have What We Have. It's Plain And Simple As That.

The Bill Then Says If The Senate Does Not Act, Then H.r. 1 (the House-passed Bill That Cuts $61 Billion) Will Be The Law Of The Land. In Addition To That, It Says That If All Else Fails, And The Senate Brings About A Shutdown, Then Members Should Not Get Their Pay.

The American People Elected Us Here To Cut Spending So We Can Create An Environment For Jobs In America. The House Has Acted. We Have Demonstrated That We Want To See Spending, Discretionary Spending, Brought Down To Levels Of 2008. We've Seen No Counteraction. We Have Seen No Position That Has Been Expressed By The Other Side At All.

We Know That Appropriators Will Fight These Cutbacks. But By Eliminating Earmarks, We Can Stop The Horse Trading That Grows Agency Budgets.