[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 27, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H393]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   GETTING OUR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Tonight, the President of the United States will return to 
this well of Congress and deliver his report on the state of the Union, 
and House Republicans welcome the President back to the people's House. 
Now we've heard that after a year of runaway Federal spending, 
trillion-dollar deficits, borrowing, bailouts, and Big Government 
schemes in energy and health care, after a year where Democrats have 
been on a spending binge, the President is going to tell us that he's 
going to get his party on the wagon here in Congress.
  Well, let me say, we welcome that. We welcome word that the President 
may call for a 3-year spending freeze. Frankly, I never met a spending 
freeze I didn't like. But let me say this emphatically: House 
Republicans will welcome any effort to restore fiscal discipline to 
Washington, D.C., and work with this administration.
  But Mr. President, the American people want action. We don't need 
another lofty speech from this historic well from the President of the 
United States. Mr. President, set aside your Big Government plans to 
take over health care, send us a budget that reduces spending and 
reduces taxes on the American people. Mr. President, deeds, not words--
deeds, not words are what are required to put our fiscal house in 
order.

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