[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 9 (Monday, January 24, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E102-E103]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    STOP THE OVERPRINTING (STOP) ACT

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                               speech of

                            HON. ERIC CANTOR

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 18, 2011

  Mr. CANTOR. Mr. Speaker, Washington has a dangerous spending problem 
that poses grave risk to future American prosperity. The only way we 
can start producing results for the people again is to transform the 
culture of spending in this town into a culture of savings.
  Over at least the past two years, the House did not cut spending on 
one single occasion. Those days are over. Under our majority, 
government will learn to do more with less.
  We may not eliminate the entire deficit overnight, but this House 
will fight to make tangible progress by cutting unnecessary spending 
and needless regulation, and growing jobs and the economy. We call it 
cut and grow.
  It is in this light that we will bring spending back down to 2008 
levels, and bring to the floor a spending cut each and every week. Two 
weeks ago, we sent a clear signal of fiscal discipline by trimming our 
own congressional budgets by 5 percent. This week, we have brought to 
the floor a spending cut picked by the public through our YouCut 
program begun last year. This reduction would eliminate mandatory 
printing of bills and resolutions by the Government Printing Office for 
the use of Members of the House of Representatives and Senate. In the 
digital age, there's no reason we can't save taxpayer dollars by 
forcing congressional offices to receive bills and resolutions through 
the Internet.

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  This legislation is a small but still important and largely symbolic 
step towards getting spending under control. I urge my colleagues to 
support the legislation.

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