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Washington, DC – Yesterday, Congressman Bill Huizenga (MI-02) appeared on "To The Point" with Rick Albin to discuss sequestration and Washington's out of control spending.  


On Sequestration: We are going to be cutting somewhere between 7% and 8% of our overspending, not our total spending, our overspending. So that means the trillion dollars plus that we are putting on the credit card, we are trimming that back by 80 to 85 billion dollars. …This is just a sliver of things that need to be done. … We've got to quit kicking the can down the road.


On Entitlement Reform and Getting Spending Under Control: Sequestration will set the new spending levels, so moving forward we will have a different baseline of spending. The other thing it does do is it shows what we can control. We've got about a trillion dollars of our 3.7 or 3.8 trillion dollar budget - so a little over a quarter of it - that we actually control through the legislature. The rest of it is on auto pilot. The rest of it's in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security a number of the other health care programs. So when you have the White House or others in Congress saying we don't need to talk about reforms or having a more efficient or effective social security system or Medicare or Medicaid system, they're just kidding themselves. I hope this is the first step in dealing with those. The simple fact is we need to have a smaller, smarter, more efficient and more effective government. I think the President wants to continue to grow government and just simply wants to spend.


On Debt Deniers: That is the philosophical divide that I talk about. It's often times not a partisan divide in Washington, it's not republican versus democrat, it’s a philosophical divide about the proper size, role, and scope of government. … There are people in Washington - I call them debt deniers - that simply do not believe we have a spending problem.