[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 20, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H4416]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RESTORE FISCAL SANITY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Austin Scott of Georgia). The Chair 
recognizes the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Mann) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in the face of a looming 
government shutdown to discuss fiscal responsibility and the importance 
of returning to regular order in this Congress.
  The government borrows too much money and the government spends too 
much money. The Biden administration and Congressional Democrats' 
spending addiction has created massive inflation and caused our 
national debt to climb to nearly $33 trillion. They prioritize spending 
that is out of touch with what Americans are asking for and are killing 
the economy in the process.
  Republicans have offered real solutions to fix this mess. All the 
other side has offered is enthusiasm for more reckless behavior.
  House Republicans remain committed to limiting future government 
spending, reclaiming unspent COVID relief money, eliminating burdensome 
regulations, and promoting pro-growth energy and economic policies.
  We need to get government spending under control and get our economy 
back on track, and we need to protect both our national defense and 
Social Security and Medicare benefits for seniors while we do it.
  What we are seeing now is President Biden and Washington Democrats' 
failure to negotiate, which regular order mandates and which Congress 
is based on. We can't keep going down this road.
  In my commitment to the Big First, I promised to do everything I can 
to end Washington's spending addiction, balance the budget, grow the 
economy, curb inflation, secure the border, and lower taxes for 
individuals and small businesses.
  We must restore fiscal sanity. Americans deserve to have their tax 
dollars used wisely. Giving the President endless, no-limit credit 
cards is no way to govern in a democracy.
  Let's secure the border. Let's decrease our country's dependence on 
Communist China. Let's commit to reining in government spending.
  It is hard for me to imagine how anyone can love the open border so 
much, or love losing to China so much, or love $200 billion of 
unaccounted for COVID relief dollars so much that they would be willing 
to shut down the Federal Government to keep the situation as-is.
  If the other side would spend as much energy on funding the 
government as they do on their liberal wish list, we would have solved 
this problem long ago.

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