[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 17 (Tuesday, February 5, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H351-H352]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RESPONSIBLE BUDGETING

  (Mr. BONNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONNER. Mr. Speaker, last week unemployment rose to 7.9 percent, 
and consumer confidence in the economy fell to a 14-month low. During 
the last 3 months of 2012, the economy shrank for the first time since 
the depths of the Great Recession.
  All of these indicators confirm what the American people know all so 
well: the economy is still suffering. And yet the President began the 
new year by raising taxes on hardworking Americans and by closing down 
his jobs council, confirming another thing that Americans know all too 
well as well: that Washington truly is disconnected from the struggles 
of hardworking families who pay their taxes, work hard, and are 
struggling just to survive.
  Now the President is calling for even more revenues to pay for $4 
trillion in new debt that he has heaped on the backs of hardworking 
Americans during the past 4 years.
  More and more, my constituents in south Alabama tell me they don't 
want to charge more money in their names as taxes rise and red ink 
pours from the streets of Washington, D.C.
  While the House has passed responsible budgets for the last 2 years, 
it's

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time for the President and the Democrat Senate to do the same.

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