[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 167 (Thursday, December 16, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H8523]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                OMNIBUS

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, it's over 1,900 pages long. It contains more 
than 6,000 earmarks. It costs over $1.1 trillion. It's the new Senate 
omnibus bill and it's a legislative travesty.
  A lame duck Congress with Members who won't be here in just 3 weeks 
should not saddle the American people with hundreds of billions of 
dollars in new debt. This bill increases spending over last year, even 
though we ran up a $1.3 trillion debt this year, and will run up a 
similarly high deficit next year. We don't need to be growing the 
Federal Government; we need to be shrinking it.
  This bill totally ignores what happened in this country on November 
2, but seeing as some of the earmarks come from Senators who won't be 
back next year, I guess we shouldn't be surprised. The American people 
are tired of paying their taxes so that $165,000 can pay for maple 
syrup research and $1 million can go to AFL-CIO training programs.
  Congress' approval rating this session is at a record low, 13 
percent. With bills like this, we shouldn't be surprised.

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