[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3759]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                 IF YOU CAN'T BUDGET, YOU CAN'T GOVERN

  (Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. Mr. Speaker, back home in New Jersey, people don't 
want to hear that the House of Representatives is preparing to go home 
for Memorial Day recess without even holding a vote on President 
Obama's budget proposal given to the Congress back in February.
  They're trying to live within their own shrunken family budgets, with 
less income and less ability to save, and with well over 10 percent of 
them unemployed.
  They know with the President's budget proposal, whatever the 
magnitude of its spending that ensures more debt and borrowing, that we 
need to make the same hard choices they are, and the Federal budgets is 
comprised of their money.
  It appears that this House will not vote because the majority, it 
seems, does not want to vote for sustained trillion-dollar deficits 
that will compound the national debt as far as the eye can see.
  I'd also add that the President's much discussed ``spending freeze'' 
comes after a 24 percent increase in spending among the affected 
agencies and programs.
  As others have said, If you can't budget, you can't govern.

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