CHAIRMAN ARRINGTON DELIVERS OPENING REMARKS AT BIPARTISAN HEARING TO EXAMINE THE NEED FOR A FISCAL COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 -- The House Budget Committee issued the following press release:

DALLAS, TEXAS -Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) delivered opening remarks at the House Budget Committee's hearing on the need to establish a bipartisan fiscal commission to address America's soaring national debt.



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Opening Remarks as Delivered:

This is the most important conversation, as was mentioned earlier that is going on today in these United States of America.

Sometimes it takes getting outside of Washington, the Washington bubble, in order to have an honest and clear-eyed conversation, and that's what I expect to happen today. And if there was ever a moment to level with one another and engage in in...