[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 162 (Thursday, December 9, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8266]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, our national debt is quickly approaching 
$14 trillion. Yesterday, Congress approved another trillion dollars, 
funding government next year, without making the necessary cuts.
  This spending bill does nothing to reverse the out-of-control 
spending of the last 2 years. Instead, it continues this incredible 
growth of borrowing and spending that puts our country on the track to 
bankruptcy. In the past 50 years, we have only balanced the budget five 
times.
  This has to change. During my first week, I introduced the 
constitutional balanced budget amendment that says simply we don't 
spend more than we take in.
  We need to pass the constitutional budget amendment, and we need to 
pass it today.

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