[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 167 (Thursday, November 3, 2011)]
[House]
[Page H7270]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                  SENATE NEEDS TO ACT ON FORGOTTEN 15

  (Ms. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, in response to the President's jobs plan, 
Linda Shevchuk from Carmel, New York, in my own 19th district, sent the 
following letter to me: ``The government's first priority should be to 
make sure that existing programs and agencies are operating efficiently 
and effectively. I can't fathom how the President can ask for more 
revenue when there is so much waste in our government. Government needs 
to act more like a business. In order to succeed, a business has to 
operate efficiently and effectively, be innovative, set a reasonable 
budget, and operate within that budget.''
  Ms. Shevchuk, you're absolutely right. In fact, on our list of the 
forgotten 15 bills that we need the Senate to act on right away, there 
is the budget for fiscal year 2012. It has now been 918 days since the 
American people received a budget for the Federal Government because 
our Senate has not yet acted.
  Please call your Senators across the country--and, Ms. Shevchuk, call 
our Senators from New York--and ask them to act on the forgotten 15, 
including the budget for fiscal year 2012, so that we can free our 
economy, free our hardworking American taxpayers, and get us all back 
to work.

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