U.S. Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., responds to a question from Danielle Hooper during a town hall-type meeting Monday at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School in Ringgold, Ga.RINGGOLD, Ga. – U.S. Rep. Tom Graves spent most of Monday railing against federal spending, but he tried to encourage private outlays.
Graves pledged at a town hall-type meeting in Fort Oglethorpe and a Catoosa County Republican Party meeting to continue fighting federal spending, but he also promoted businesses in Ringgold, which still is recovering from the April 27 tornado.
“Ringgold is open for business,” he said Monday.
Much of the discussion Monday was about the recent debate on the federal debt limit. Graves was an outspoken opponent of raising the limit and a supporter of a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget.
“Compromise is what got us in this mess, and it will not get us out,” he said.