[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 77 (Thursday, May 20, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3665]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, every day all across America right now 
families are sitting down at the dinner table trying to figure out how 
to make ends meet. Many of them have lost their jobs. Others have seen 
that their mortgage payments have gone up, their utility costs are 
going up. And you know what they are having to do? They are having to 
sit down and revise their budget. They are trying to figure out instead 
of taking a vacation if they need to go and fix the car.
  What we have seen is the American people are realizing that you can't 
borrow and spend, borrow and spend, that someday there is a day of 
reckoning. And they are wondering why their government hasn't figured 
that out.
  Last week, Republicans gave the American people an opportunity to 
voice their opinion about whether we should cut expenses or not; 
280,000 people said we should start cutting spending. And they are 
going to be given an opportunity this week to express themselves as 
well.
  Mr. Speaker, what they wonder is why Congress doesn't get the 
message. We saw today that the jobless rate is up to 471,000 people. 
People are out of work, Mr. Speaker. We need to get Americans back to 
work and we need to cut the spending. We need to listen to the American 
people.

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