Providing for Consideration of S. 365, Budget Control Act of 2011

Floor Speech

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Ms. FOXX. I thank my colleague from California, the distinguished chairman of the Rules Committee, for yielding.

I just did an interview with the TV station in my district. One of the questions that the interviewer asked is, ``What does this mean to the average person in your district? People are paying attention to what's going on in D.C.''

And I said, ``That's probably the best thing that's happened out of this whole debate, that people are paying attention. Had they been paying attention the last 40 years, we wouldn't be in the situation that we're in.''

I then pointed out to her that in today's dollars, Federal spending per U.S. household went from $11,431 in 1965 to $29,401 in 2010. That tells us all that we need to know. The Federal Government is addicted to spending. We need to cut spending, not raise taxes, and this compromise bill does that.

Mr. Speaker, as the distinguished gentleman from California said, we want to create jobs, and the best way to do that is to stop taking money out of the private sector, stop overtaxing the people in this country, leave that money in the private sector and allow it to be used to create jobs.

This is not a perfect bill. We all say it's not a perfect bill, both sides of the aisle. That generally means that it's a good bill because it's not perfect, and when people want compromise and they hear that, then they know that's right.

But the change in direction is historic. We're going from seeing how much money we can spend to how much can we cut. I am intrigued at a lot of my colleagues across the aisle, they've obviously been on the road to Damascus, because their whole language has changed in response to this bill, but I am glad they have finally seen the light and I hope in the future they're going to join us in more efforts like this.

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