Speaking to the Rotary Club of Lawrenceville and their guests at Monday’s meeting was Congressman Rob Woodall.  Woodall serves the 7th district of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives where he is on the House Committee on Rules, the House Budget Committee, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.   It was mainly in his capacity as a member of the House Budget Committee and as the Chairman of the Republican Study Committee’s Budget and Spending Task Force that he addressed the group.  He focused on the question of a balanced budget and the huge deficit that looms over all.  He reported on the budgets currently before Congress and made clear he felt a balanced budget was a moral imperative.  He discussed the looming insolvencies in three major programs, Social Security Disabilities Insurance, Medicare, and Social Security, and reported that young people have little faith that Social Security will be there when they reach retirement age.  Other topics were interest rates on treasury securities, the decline in projected real economic growth, and the lowered labor force participation rate. He conceded only hard decisions remain and that Americans have to change their expectations.  He then fielded questions on such issues as the Iran situation, the Keystone pipeline, the President’s executive actions, tax reform, and the impact of presidential politics on foreign affairs.