[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 17 (Tuesday, February 5, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H351]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SPENDING AND BUDGET DEFICITS

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, today we will consider a House Republican 
message bill that makes a point about spending and budget deficits. The 
problem is all those who support this bill about spending did all the 
spending: two tax cuts that gave us the worst period of job growth in 
the past 75 years and our Nation's worst recession; two wars, unpaid 
for, that took $1.5 trillion out of the American economy; a drug 
prescription program, unpaid for, cost $1 trillion over ten years.
  The big spenders, who falsely claim to be concerned about the job 
creators are, in fact, the debt and deficit makers.

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