[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 24, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H2609-H2610]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   REPUBLICANS SAY ``GET SERIOUS ABOUT FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: FREEZE 
                             SPENDING NOW''

  (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, during these challenging economic times, 
American families and small businesses are making sacrifices to make 
ends meet, and Congress should do the same.
  With all the talk about fiscal responsibility in Washington, D.C., it 
is time for our Democratic colleagues to put our money where their 
mouth is, and Republicans are willing to come together across the aisle 
and make the hard choices necessary to put our fiscal house in order.
  Judging from what is scheduled to come to the floor tomorrow, Mr. 
Speaker, it looks like the majority just doesn't get it. Just slightly 
over one week after passing a $1 trillion so-called stimulus bill, 
Democrats in Congress are planning to pass another big spending bill, 
$410 billion, 9,000 earmarks as usual, the largest increase in 
discretionary spending since the Carter administration.
  House Republicans and millions of Americans are saying enough is 
enough. Let's do what every American family, what the every small 
business is doing. Let's freeze Federal spending immediately and come 
together to get this Congress' house in order.

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