[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 28 (Friday, February 11, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E141]
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                      CALLING FOR BALANCED BUDGET

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                           HON. PAUL A. GOSAR

                               of arizona

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, February 11, 2022

  Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, the House is set to take up a third stopgap 
funding bill since the fiscal year started back in October 2021.
  Let me phrase that differently. We are nearly halfway into fiscal 
year 2022 and Congress has yet to fund the government.
  America is flat broke. Last week the Treasury Department announced 
that our national debt exceeds 830 trillion, reaching a calamitous 
level and tripling in the last decade. Inflation is at a historic 40-
year high. Yet Congress cannot do its basic job and pass a budget on 
time.
  Instead of addressing real issues facing our nation, the House of 
Representatives is once again kicking the can for three more weeks to 
give Congress additional time to try to pass another bloated budget.
  Congress cannot spend its way into prosperity, and we must end the 
frantic habit of governing from one crisis to another. Instead of 
running up bills we can't pay for, we should be funding the common-
sense priorities of the American people, including securing the border, 
adequately funding our military, reducing taxes and eliminating job-
killing regulations.
  Today, I reiterate my call for a balanced budget. If we cannot 
balance the budget rationally, we need a balanced budget constitutional 
amendment that would force Congress to live within its means, like 
everyone else.
  I have spent my time in Congress trying to reduce spending and 
stopping this nonsense. I will be voting against this irresponsible 
kick-the-can-down-the-road continuing resolution. Spending more money 
that we don't have will not solve our nation's fiscal problems.
  All of us will pay the price in the future. Unfortunately, our 
children and grandchildren will be most impacted. This is immoral to 
harm future generations but that is what today's continuing resolution 
does.

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