[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 30, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H6718]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  OUR NATION'S DEBT IS EATING US ALIVE

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, our Nation's debt is eating us alive, 
and without changing our disastrous fiscal course, the CBO warns that 
our interest costs will exceed our entire defense budget in just 8 
years.
  For the first time in a decade, this Congress has adopted a budget to 
restore fiscal solvency. Having set that course, we now must stay that 
course. That is what the appropriations process is all about.
  For months, Senate Democrats have blocked consideration of any of the 
appropriations bills we have sent them unless we discard the budget and 
put our country back on the road to bankruptcy.
  Today we have reached the fiscal deadline. A temporary funding bill 
is necessary to keep the government open, and I would support it if the 
House and Senate leadership announced a timetable to complete our work 
and pledged to keep to that timetable. Without that announcement, a 
short-term CR simply continues us on an unsustainable course.

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