Messer Provides Washington Update With Eagle 99.3

Wednesday, December 18, 2013 at 6:28 AM

By Mike Perleberg

Congressman Luke Messer (R-IN 6) (left) visited the Eagle 99.3 Studio with Dearborn County Commissioner Kevin Lynch Wednesday.

Mike Perleberg-Eagle 99.3

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - Indiana Sixth District Congressman Luke Messer visited with Eagle 99.3 Tuesday morning.

The first-term Republican from Shelbyville spoke about his recent Sixth District Job Fair held at Ivy Tech Community College last October. Bubba Bo also asked the congressman about his vote last week in favor of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013. Messer has taken some flak from conservatives over his vote.

LISTEN TO EAGLE 99.3'S INTERVIEW WITH INDIANA CONGRESSMAN LUKE MESSER AND DEARBORN COUNTY COMMISSIONER KEVIN LYNCH ON OUR SOUNDBYTES PAGE.

"I'll quote the lyrics of the Rolling Stones, 'You can't always get what you want,'" Messer explained. "...The reality is whether I like it or not - whether any of us like it or not - we're in a divided government. We have a Democratic president, a Democratic-led Senate. This budget bill was the deal that we could get past with that Senate."

Messer said the budget bill reduces spending "mildly" over the next ten years. The spending plan will reduce the deficit by $23 billion over the next 10 years and provides two years of budget certainty, staving off government shutdown and financial crises.

Bubba Bo asked Messer how he'll explain to Indiana's veterans the budget bill's funding cuts for veterans services.

"The bottom line reality is this. We need to honor our veterans. There is no more higher, important obligation as government. At the same time we have to make a series of tough choices to make sure we continue to balance our budget. If we continue on our current spending paths, we're not going to have enough money to pay for Social Security, Medicare, or veterans benefits for anybody," he said.

Messer also continued his call to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

"We need to focus as a country on the disaster connected with this law. We've all heard of the website. The website is going to be the least of our problems as the year unfolds," Messer claimed.