$8 trillion in debt. In fact, this Nation is borrowing $907 million a day, $188 million a day going to Iraq, $33 million a day going to Afghanistan. In fact, this President and this Republican Congress have borrowed more money from foreigners in the past 5 years than the previous 42 Presidents combined. And all this before the hurricane season. Now they are proposing in tomorrow's budget reconciliation cutting Medicaid $12 billion, cutting food stamps and farm programs $3.7 billion, cutting student loans $14.3 billion. And for what? To pay for another $70 billion in tax cuts for those earning over $400,000 a year. 

Madam Speaker, these are not my priorities. These are not America's priorities. These are not the kinds of conservative, small-town values that I was raised on and still believe in.