[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 37 (Friday, March 11, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H1761]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 EVEN COWBOY POETS WANT TO CUT SPENDING

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I was absolutely dumbfounded 
recently when I heard the Senate majority leader slamming the long-term 
continuing resolution passed by this House, which cut government 
spending by more than $100 billion below the President's FY 2011 budget 
request.
  He particularly lamented the elimination of funding for an annual 
cowboy poetry festival in Nevada.
  Mr. Speaker, I can assure the Senate majority leader that the rugged 
individualism of the American cowboy will not be snuffed out due to the 
lack of a Federal subsidy. In fact, I believe that the American cowboy 
supports our efforts to get this out-of-control Federal spending under 
control.
  Let me quote, Mr. Speaker, from a poem written by Yvonne Hollenbeck, 
who has been featured at the National Cowboy Poetry Gatherings in Elko, 
Nevada. The title of her poem is ``How to Cut Taxes'':
  So, I think if I was the President of this home of the free and the 
brave,
  I'd close up all those departments and think of the money I'd save.
  Mr. Speaker, this is the poet that I would give a personal subsidy 
to, and I would hope that our colleagues in the other body would take 
that good old American cowboy common sense and help us start saving the 
American people's money.

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