[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 22 (Wednesday, March 2, 2005)]
[House]
[Page H852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE NATIONAL BUDGET

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, the Good Book tells us to know the condition 
of our flocks and keep careful watch over our herds, for riches do not 
endure forever.
  Tomorrow the budget debate begins here on Capitol Hill as the 
Committee on the Budget begins the process of writing our Federal 
budget, and President Bush has sent to Capitol Hill a strong 
conservative budget that represents a good start as we head down the 
road to fiscal discipline.
  But as the debate begins, let us also insist that we change the way 
we spend the people's money. Observers of Congress know that it is not 
bad people who spend the people's money, it is a bad process that has 
not been fundamentally reformed since 1972. Only through fundamental 
budget process reform and a budget that represents fiscal discipline 
will we begin again to restore fiscal discipline to the national 
budget.

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