House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while excoriating Republicans for putting riders in an omnibus spending bill, also summarized the Democratic Party’s role in massive government debt, as she identified the top three Democrats in the House as “appropriators” who participate in that appropriations “culture.”
“Mr. Hoyer and I and Mr. Clyburn, we’re all appropriators,” Pelosi said today during a press conference with House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Assistant Minority Leader Jim Clyburn, D-S.C. “We’re from that culture; we respect the appropriations process,” a process that she said should not be sullied by riders.
“We’re from that [appropriations] culture” could be the epitaph for Democratic control of the House between 2006 and 2010. White House historical tables show that the last Republican spending law, for fiscal year 2007 (and passed by big spending Republicans), laid out $2.275 trillion, which more or less approximates the $2.2 trillion in tax revenues the U.S. government collects every years.
Under Speaker Pelosi’s leadership, government spending increased to over $3 trillion in fiscal year 2009 — the last year of spending that Democrats totally controlled before Republicans took power. She played a leading role in the spending increase between 2007 and 2011, a time frame that Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported saw the biggest increase in government spending over any four year period in American history.
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