[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 89 (Tuesday, June 15, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H4442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             PASS A BUDGET

  (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 have heard today 
some comments from our friends on the other side of the aisle about 
fiscal responsibility and about creating jobs, but the one thing we 
haven't heard from them is anything about the budget.
  If they were from Hollywood, they would be up here saying, ``We don't 
need no stinkin' budget.'' If they were involved in, oh, Presidential 
politics a few years ago, they would say, ``Where's the beef? Where's 
the budget?''
  Fiscal responsibility starts with knowing where you are and where you 
are going. Every family in America adopts a budget, but I guess we are 
too big to fail. We are too big to create budgets because we can just 
print money after money after money. The fundamental proposition is, as 
stated by the chairman of the Budget Committee a couple years ago, if 
you can't budget, you can't govern.
  They've told us they can't budget. They're proving to us they can't 
govern. The problem is this is not a game; this is not a Hollywood 
movie; this is real life, and real people are hurting.
  Let's get down to the business of helping people by being responsible 
here, and let's start with a budget. Everybody understands that, 
perhaps, except the Democratic leadership.

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