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Congress has the constitutional responsibility to control the power of the 'purse'.

We know the Constitution gives the purse strings to the House.

One of the responsibilities of Congress is the power of the purse, but there is also oversight. In order to have proper oversight, you have to have agency administrators, directors, and secretaries of those agencies speak frankly and about the facts.

We're going to have to control the spending of government.

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

We have the best government that money can buy.

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

The most powerful thing we own is our vote.

The Constitution grants only Congress - not the president - the power 'to borrow money on the credit of the United States.'

We must seize the moment and permanently delay the entire law. Congress can do this. We control the purse strings and can protect taxpayers from funding Obamacare.