Tim Scott

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I yield the gentleman another 20 seconds.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Fleming).

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I yield the gentleman another 30 seconds.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina, Mr. Trey Gowdy.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I yield the gentleman from South Carolina an additional 30 seconds.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Mulvaney).

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana, Mr. Dan Burton.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Yes, sir. I suppose I have four or five.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Tom Graves.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Sullivan).

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. I do remember that the Paul Ryan budget came in at a number of $1.19 trillion in overall spending for the annual year. If you're talking about the 10-year impact of the Paul Ryan budget--

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, one of the comments by my good friend, Mr. Polis from Colorado, was that Republicans were trying to end Medicare. That's a laughable comment. As a matter of fact, it is so laughable that hot off the press, the PolitiFact, which finds out whether or not there is truth or not in words: The political lie of the year is that Republicans voted to end Medicare. PolitiFact just named the political lie of the year the comment that Republicans voted to end Medicare. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Duncan).

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. No, sir, but I yield 3 minutes to my good friend from South Carolina (Mr. Wilson).

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I find it quite interesting to hear Mr. Polis, who sounds like a good Republican over there, I must concede, sounds like a good Republican over there talking about excessive spending. But here's the question, the Democratic-controlled Senate hadn't passed the budget, next Tuesday, in a thousand days, and it's laughable that someone on the left would talk about deficit spending since the three records on deficit spending have occurred in the last three cycles, FY 2009 a $1.4 trillion deficit and FY 2010, $1.294 trillion deficit. Under President Obama in 2011, a 1.299--let's just round it to $1.3 trillion in deficit spending.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. The Budget Control Act of 2011, which was enacted into law on August 2, 2011, authorized increases in the administration's borrowing authority subject to a joint resolution of disapproval. The law provides for consideration of a joint resolution of disapproval with 2 hours of debate. Amendments to the joint resolution are not permitted under the law. H. Res. 515 allows the House to consider the resolution of disapproval in the House today, rather than tomorrow, as currently contemplated in the law. Simply put, we are moving up its consideration by 1 day to better accommodate the House floor schedule. I rise today in support of this rule and the underlying resolution. Mr. Speaker, I stand before you posing two very, very important questions. The first is an issue of scale. Where I come from in North Charleston, South Carolina, we have a little trouble digesting exactly what $1.2 trillion really means. To help get my own head around the number $1.2 trillion, I did a little factfinding. A last-minute flight from Charleston, South Carolina, to Washington, D.C., is about $1,100. You could fly back and forth every single day for the next 3 million years in order to spend $1.2 trillion. I'm not sure about anyone else in the Chamber, but there aren't too many things I'm planning to do for the next 3 million years. Now that we have a little perspective on what $1.2 trillion really means, the second question is a simple one: Why is it so hard to say we can't afford it? It's a simple question. Why is it so hard to say that we can't afford another $1.2 trillion of debt? I asked the same question on my Facebook. Here are two responses to the question: What's not to understand? Just cut the darned budget just like the rest of us have to do. We the people, on an individual level, have got to demand less government. It's called courage, the courage to just say ``no.'' So, Mr. Speaker, it's bad enough that through the national health care bill, the Democrats raised taxes on the middle class by $500 billion and then they raised another half a trillion dollars for Medicare, but now they want to borrow $1.2 trillion. From whom--it's a good question--from whom? Unborn Americans, unborn Americans and foreign nations in order to continue borrowing 42 cents on every dollar to spend in 2012. It's just not right, Mr. Speaker. The American people will not stand for the blank check culture of the past and I, for one, stand with the American people. Once again, Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this rule and the underlying legislation. I encourage my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on this rule and ``yes'' on the underlying bill. I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. For the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. General Leave

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 515 and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, there is no doubt the American people are afraid. They're afraid of the party on the left. They're afraid because the party on the left raided $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for a national health care Ponzi scheme. They're afraid because that same party who talks about tax cuts for the middle class raised taxes by a half a trillion dollars on the middle class. After being held hostage, the middle class now hears from the party on the left, Trust me with a 60-day extension. No planning time, no time to figure it out. Trust me after I raised taxes on you in the last 12 months by more than a half a trillion dollars. Mr. Speaker, regular order suggests for the last 200 years that when the House and the Senate don't agree, they go to conference so that the folks on the left and those fighting for freedom on the right have an opportunity to come together in a conference. So to Mr. Waxman and Mr. Levin and others on the left who want a seat at the table, conference is the way you get a seat at the table. What we're asking for is common sense, something America has not seen from Congress in the last several years. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to vote ``yes'' on the rule and ``yes'' on the underlying bill.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California, the great chairman of the Rules Committee, David Dreier. (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana, Mr. Jeff Landry.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I am prepared to close, so I will reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York, Mr. Tom Reed.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia, my cousin, Austin Scott.

Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from North Carolina, Dr. Foxx.