[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 59 (Thursday, April 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H3158-H3159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONGRESS DOES NOT NEED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO DO ITS JOB 
                               HONORABLY

  (Mr. HIGGINS of New York asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. Speaker, House Republicans recently 
voted to add $2.5 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. 
That is more debt in the shortest period of time by any one political 
party, the

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Republican Party, in American history. Their debt will exceed the 
entire American economy in 10 years.
  The moral horror of passing this debt on to your kids and grandkids 
now belongs to you. You own it and they owe it.
  To now offer a balanced budget amendment is transparently cowardly 
and egregious. Congress does not need a constitutional amendment to do 
its job honorably. The Constitution already gives Congress that 
authority. What is missing is the intestinal fortitude to do that which 
the Constitution calls on you to do honorably.

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