Tennessee Republican members of the United States House of Representatives apparently have different ideas about how the country’s fiscal house is to be put in order.
The House voted 314-77 to pass the Fiscal Responsibility Act Wednesday, which would raise the country’s debt ceiling and stave off a potential government shutdown.
In explaining their votes on the bill — for or against — Volunteer State GOP members cited identical language.
“I came to Congress to work to get our fiscal house back in order,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Ooltewah, said in a news release. “That is why I voted to pass the [bill] — the largest spending cut in our nation’s history.” He said he also wanted to put the country “back on the road to economic prosperity … for our children and grandchildren.”
“I came [to Washington, D.C.] to put our fiscal house in order,” U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Columbia, said after voting against the measure, “and protect the future generations of Tennesseans.”