Speech #1140001051

I want to talk a little bit about that in terms of our work in appropriations. In particularly the last few weeks. many people have expressed genuine concerns to me about the appropriations bill that passed Congress in December. Unfortunately. many Washingtonbased special interest groups are confusing the matter of what happened in December with the omnibus bill that we passed with incomplete and sometimes. frankly. false messages aimed more at fundraising for themselves than uniting behind our shared goal of stopping President Obamas executive overreach on immigration. One of the most misleading and commonly circulated suggestions is that the Constitution grants the House of Representatives alone the "power of the purse." or giving the House exclusive authority to withhold funding for targeted initiatives. I am going to be reading a part of the Constitution in a moment that relates to this. but I want to read another part of the Constitution that I think often gets misquoted to prove this example.