[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 93 (Wednesday, May 31, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H2670-H2671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SETTING OUR AIM HIGH ENOUGH

  (Mrs. SPARTZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SPARTZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my grave concern 
with the fiscal state of our Nation, as someone who spent over a decade 
in the finance and accounting profession.
  We are going to be voting on the Fiscal Responsibility Act today. One 
side will say how great it is, and the other side will say how awful it 
is, but really it is meaningless, considering the immense gravity of 
our fiscal problems.
  As Michelangelo once said: ``The greater danger for most of us lies 
not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our 
aim too low, and achieving our mark.''

[[Page H2671]]

  Unfortunately, this Congress is not setting its aim high enough for 
all of the people who died for our Republic and for future generations. 
I hope we will have a backbone to do it someday.

                          ____________________