[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3766]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              THE DEFICIT

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I stand before the House today to talk 
about when I was making the decision whether or not to run for office, 
my wife and I talked about it. We had young children and were concerned 
about what a campaign and being in Washington back and forth would do 
to our children.
  We talked about the $400 billion budget deficit in 2007 and 2008 and 
not what it would do to our children if I ran for office, but what we 
could do for our children, and our children's children, and their 
friends, and their future.
  And, now, the $400 billion budget deficit is the point, the decimal 
point on the current budget deficit, $1.4 trillion. The budget that has 
been presented says it is going to go up double in 5 years and triple 
in 10.
  So I am here to work for my children and their future, and we need to 
ask ourselves every time a spending bill comes forward, is this worth 
borrowing from our children and our grandchildren's future to spend 
this money?

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