[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 88 (Monday, June 14, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H4390]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    ADOPT A BUDGET, AND THEN KEEP IT

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, we are setting new 
records here in this Congress and in this government. We are now 
approaching, if we haven't already leaped over it, the $14 trillion 
mark for the national debt.
  Fourteen trillion dollars. It doesn't just kind of trip off your 
tongue. It's a huge number. It's a number that is difficult to 
contemplate. And yet we sit here, working very diligently on suspension 
calendar bills, doing virtually nothing about the national debt except 
adding to it day after day after day.
  If you were to have a household income, and you were trying to 
determine what to do with your debt, it seems to me the first thing you 
would do is you would adopt a budget. You would adopt a budget to try 
and figure out your income, your expenses, how much debt you could 
have. But we have been informed by the majority that we're not even 
going to start with that this year. We are going to forget about even 
coming up with a budget, I guess because we're so embarrassed about the 
numbers that would be in there.
  Let's at least do what families do: adopt a budget and then keep it.

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