[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 17, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H3450]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




HOUSE CONSERVATIVES AND THE MINORITY TODAY ARE READY TO LEAD AND OFFER 
                              ALTERNATIVES

  (Mr. CULBERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CULBERSON. Mr. Speaker, the conservatives who won re-election in 
the House are those who overwhelmingly voted against the massive 
spending programs that were proposed over the course of the last 
administration, who voted against the $1.5 trillion of new spending of 
this new administration. And we, House conservatives and the minority 
today, are ready to lead. We are offering alternatives to this massive 
spending program proposed by this new administration.
  In only 38 legislative days, Mr. Speaker, the new liberal majority 
that rules Congress and rules the White House has managed to spend more 
money in less time than any Congress in the history of the United 
States. Never before have so few spent so much money in so little time.
  This budget proposed by the White House, spending $3.5 trillion, 
driving up the deficit to triple the level of last year, doubling the 
national debt in 8 years, ignores the financial hurricane just over the 
horizon that House conservatives are ready to deal with. This Nation 
faces unfunded liabilities at unprecedented levels, and we have got to 
just say ``no'' to more spending.

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