I will bet you that everybody who ran for election from the Democratic side of the aisle to this Congress said they were going to discipline the Federal deficit using paygo. Since they have been in office. since they have been running this Congress. they have either waived or gotten around paygo on about 12 different occasions. representing billions of dollars of cost to the American taxpayer. of which this $40 billion item we are doing today is one of the biggest. With minimum wage. they went around paygo. with the Water Resources Development Act. they went around paygo. with PDUFA. they went around paygo. with immigration reform. they went around paygo. with the Energy bill. they went around paygo. with the MILC bill. they went around paygo. with the county payments or payments in lieu of taxes. at $4 billion. they went around paygo. with the new mandatory Pell grants. $6 billion. they went around paygo. and now here. with SCHIP. they are going around paygo to the tune of $40 billion. Almost $90 billion has been proposed to be spent by the other side of the aisle since they took control of this Congress which should have been subject to paygo but where they have either waived. ignored. or gimmicked paygo out of existence. So where is the fiscal discipline?
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