tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam speaker. i yield myself 15 seconds to respond to the gentleman's comments. i would take issue with saying any member of this house is lazy or that this is a lazy process. indeed it is not. as i said, 26 states have used across the board cuts to get their fiscal house in order. this government is overspent, we have to get it under control. let's compliment what has been done by the appropriators and make things across the boort -- and make these across the board cuts. the chair: the gentlelady's time has expired. mrs. blackburn: i yield to the gentleman from south carolina. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. it's time to stop the spending insanity in this country. the american government knows the government is too large -- the american people know the government is too large. we're $14 trillion and $1.5 trillion in the red this year. it's got to stop. i'm part of an 87-member freshmen class that said,...