[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 24, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H3752-H3753]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 DAY 63

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the distinguished 
minority leader, the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Boehner).
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, today is day 63 of the 
Obama administration and we are still waiting for something--anything--
to create jobs and to help our economy.
  The President says he wants input from the Republican side of the 
aisle--and we are proposing better solutions. Now it's time for 
Democrats to stop paying lip service to our ideas and actually work 
with us to start doing it.

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  During the stimulus debate, we offered a plan that would create twice 
as many jobs at half the cost, but the Democrats passed a bill that 
included hundreds of billions of wasteful Washington spending.

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  During the omnibus debate, we offered a plan that would freeze 
spending through September 30, but my Democrat colleagues passed a 
bloated bill with wasteful spending and some 9,000 earmarks.
  Now Republicans are prepared to offer a better budget solution to 
create jobs, rebuild savings, and restore fiscal sanity here in 
Washington. The question is: Will Democrats work with us?
  Unfortunately, the President's budget spends too much, taxes too 
much, and borrows too much from our kids and grandkids.
  The Congressional Budget Office just last week reported that the 
President's budget is actually $2.3 trillion more costly than the White 
House initially claimed. In fact, his budget adds more to the debt in 
the first 6 years than his 43 predecessors have accumulated over the 
last 220 years. And his national energy tax will cost families up to 
$3,100 more each year.
  All of this spending and taxing and borrowing begs the question: What 
in the world is the White House thinking?
  President Obama should ask Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid to delay 
congressional action on this budget so that mounting concern on both 
sides of the aisle about his budget can be addressed. I think it is 
time to get back to reality. Our Nation is in serious crisis, and we 
need better solutions than what Washington has given the American 
people so far this year, and I and my Republican colleagues will be 
offering them.

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