[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 83 (Friday, May 28, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H4088-H4089]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             PASS A BUDGET

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, House Democrats are refusing to do one of the 
most basic jobs that the American people have sent their 
Representatives to Washington to do: Make a budget. We are in the midst 
of a spending crisis. Seven months into this fiscal year, and the 
Federal Government has already spent $800 billion that it doesn't have, 
and that number is skyrocketing. House Democrats are ready to add 
another $134 billion to the deficit this week.
  So how do we fix this problem? How do we stop taxing and borrowing 
and spending without restraint? One of the most obvious ways is by 
having a budget. That's our job, to pass a budget that makes hard 
choices and sets priorities and brings government spending under 
control.

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  But the Democrat majority in this House is afraid to let the American 
people see more of its deficit spending. They don't want to put a 
budget on paper because then they'll have to debate it, and they'll 
have to explain to the American people why they want to keep spending 
hundreds of billions of dollars that we don't have.

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