[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 163 (Tuesday, September 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H4562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             NATIONAL DEBT

  (Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. KELLER. Madam Speaker, later this afternoon the House is set to 
consider a continuing resolution on the Federal budget. Instead of 
taking time to hold meaningful discussions about budget offsets and 
reforms, Speaker Pelosi released bill text less than 24 hours before 
the scheduled vote.
  Make no mistake, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats have no interest 
in reining in Washington's outrageous spending or addressing our 
national debt, now well over $28 trillion, which our children and 
grandchildren will have to repay.
  Earlier this year, House Democrats rammed through a partisan 
appropriations package that cracked the door open for their far left 
priorities. Today, they are blowing the hinges off that door and 
setting the stage for their $3.5 trillion tax-and-spend package, which 
will devastate America's families and send the skyrocketing inflation 
soaring to even greater heights.
  That is not responsible. That is not good governance, and it is 
certainly not good stewardship of Americans' taxpayer dollars.

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