[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H2984]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PUTTING COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH FIRST

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, you know, it is so interesting to go 
home on the weekends and visit with all of my constituents. This past 
weekend, some of them said, I feel like everything that I am hearing 
from the leadership in D.C. is focused on fear and envy to push their 
agenda.
  The President's budget is just big government reinvented. Here it is, 
the era of enormous big government. It expands government spending past 
the traditional no more than 20 percent of GDP that we have always 
expected, and it is going into the stratosphere. Programs are piled on 
top of each other to give us what is now a $3.55 trillion budget that 
has come from this Democrat administration. And the deficits? $1 
trillion as far as the eye can see. And this is on top of the stimulus, 
the omnibus, the ``Housing-us'' bills, that are just ripping through 
this Chamber at speeds that would make my NASCAR drivers dizzy.
  You know, some of my constituents suspect that the leadership in this 
House actually is choosing to confuse the issues. They know you cannot 
spend your way to recovery.

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