What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.

On November 2 2010 he lost to Republican challenger Mick Mulvaney. House of Representatives


Committee assignments in 111th Congress
Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

Committee on the Budget (Chairman)
For his work in Congress Spratt won praise from Columbia's newspaper The State which called him "one of his party's most reliable 'bridges' to the Republican side. "


Political campaigns
Spratt became active in Democratic politics at an early age and was elected delegate to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

Spratt was the dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation chairman of the U. John McKee Spratt Jr. S.