[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 37 (Thursday, March 14, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H1415]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       BUDGET GAMES IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of Georgians 
and folks all over our Nation who are sick and tired of the budget 
games in Washington.
  Ask almost any American what happens if someone spends substantially 
more money than they take in, and they'll tell you that that individual 
will be plagued with debt and face limited economic opportunity.
  But this commonsense reality seems to evade many of my friends in the 
other body. As evidenced by the recently proposed budget, this so-
called plan increases taxes by $1 trillion, proposes $100 billion in 
new stimulus spending, and will never balance.
  This mentality is exactly what got our Nation into this fiscal mess 
in the first place. However, I must commend my friends for at least 
finally putting down a budget on paper. It took them 4 years, and their 
plan certainly doesn't propose any new ideas, but at least they've 
articulated where they stand.
  However, this administration remains delinquent in their duty to send 
a budget to Congress. The administration's budget is more than a month 
overdue, and news reports indicate it may come in April, if at all. 
They have complained that the delay is the result of Congressional 
debate surrounding the fiscal cliff and sequester.
  Someone should tell this administration that using uncertainty 
created by their own policies to buck their responsibility to craft a 
budget is unconscionable. Attacking this body's balanced budget 
approach, when they haven't produced their own plan, unfortunately 
reveals their willingness to put partisan politics ahead of our 
Nation's fiscal future.
  If this administration is truly concerned about the uncertainty, they 
should send to Congress a responsible balanced budget. This will put 
our Nation on the path to true fiscal responsibility.

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