[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 37 (Tuesday, March 3, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H2891-H2892]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                                 BUDGET

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, in the President's address to the joint 
session of Congress, he said unequivocally he was opposed to bigger 
government. Yet the President's budget does exactly the opposite. Big 
government is back and is bigger than before. Under the President's 
plan, the national debt will double to $20 trillion. We cannot sustain 
this; we cannot afford this, and we simply must say, ``No.''
  The President said, ``If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, 
you will not see your taxes increase a single dime. I repeat: not a 
single dime.''
  Yet the President's budget calls for significant tax increases that 
will be paid by every American, by 100 percent of us. Let us remember 
it is not the

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government's money we talk about and spend. It is the American people's 
money. We cannot afford to continue to run this government on a credit 
card. We are going to have to do more with less, and that means finding 
ways to cut government spending.

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