Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) issued the following statement after Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in charge refused to allow Republicans to offer an amendment authored by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to save taxpayers billions of dollars. Because Speaker Pelosi chose to fold the continuing resolution to extend government funding for an additional month into unrelated legislation, Republicans were not allowed to offer an amendment that would save $84 billion over an entire fiscal year by setting funding at the fiscal year 2008 level.

“Republicans drafted a positive alternative solution to this continuing resolution that would save taxpayers $84 billion,” said Congressman Price. “True to form, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats in power would not allow it to be voted on by the full House of Representatives. Are they worried some of their members might actually believe that saving $84 billion is a good idea? Our nation is on the brink of bankruptcy, yet Democrats in charge continue to spend with reckless abandon. It speaks volumes that those in charge won’t even allow a vote on our cost-saving amendment.

“This is just another example of the Democrat lack of leadership pretending that Republican solutions don’t exist. Perhaps they don’t believe the problems caused by running up $11.8 trillion in debt can be solved by spending less money. Their refusal to allow a vote on an amendment that saves $84 billion proves once again that they have no plan to deal with their skyrocketing deficits. This is a reckless decision.”