[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 15 (Tuesday, February 2, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H430]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESIDENT'S OBAMA'S PROPOSED BUDGET

  (Mr. LUETKEMEYER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LUETKEMEYER. Mr. Speaker, for more than a year, the people back 
home in the Ninth District of Missouri have expressed their anger about 
the way our government and this administration are spending their hard-
earned money. They are even angrier today after learning that the next 
proposed budget comes in at a whopping $3.8 trillion with a record 
deficit of $1.6 trillion. I give the President credit for his idea of a 
spending freeze, but the problem is that it freezes spending at record 
levels. It comes in after he has signed spending bills and a failed 
stimulus that have increased some spending by as much as 84 percent in 
the last 2 years. And the spending freeze applies to just 13 percent of 
the budget and doesn't even take effect until next year.
  In other words, using good old fashioned Missouri logic, this 
spending freeze is a lot like trying to close the door after the horse 
is already out. It just doesn't work. The good folks at home are tired 
of lip service and fancy speeches about getting spending under control. 
The people of the Show-Me State want us to show them that we are 
serious about getting spending under control.

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