[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 142 (Thursday, September 12, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H5217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   WHICH FLAVOR CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. GAETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Speaker, all the talk in Washington is about whether 
we will have this flavor of a continuing resolution for government 
funding or that flavor of a continuing resolution.
  What that does is it presents the entire funding of the United States 
Government as an up-or-down vote, an up-or-down proposition. That is 
precisely the reason we are nearly $38 trillion in debt.
  We have to break the fever dream of governing by omnibus spending 
bill and continuing resolution, and we have to get to single-subject 
spending bills where these agencies have to defend their budget in its 
programmatic review.
  The reason that doesn't happen is because the lobbyists and the 
special interests who run this town and who own the leaders on both 
sides want it that way. They don't want any itemized review.
  We have to get back to those single-subject bills or we will continue 
this path we are on where we are adding $1 trillion in debt to the 
national debt every 100 days.
  The American people don't want it. Only the folks in Washington want 
it, and I am going to keep demanding a change in the way we think, 
breaking the fever dream, and getting back to single-subject bills. I 
will vote against these continuing resolutions.

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