    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 25, 2025)]
    [House]
    [Pages H779-H780]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

        BUDGET RESOLUTION WILL BRING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY TO GOVERNMENT

      (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for
    1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
      Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the important work we are doing right now
    on the budget resolution is going to set the course to bring really
    strong fiscal responsibility back to this Congress and for our Nation.
      It is important that we get on board and pursue this process so that
    we can do even better things later on this year. There is so much that
    needs to be done.
      We are seeing the great work that DOGE is doing in reeling in the
    size of our government and trying to claw back some of the waste that
    has cost

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    the taxpayers money. It is not our money. It is the taxpayers' money.
      This includes, for example, the great work done by our Secretary of
    Transportation Sean Duffy the other day in California. He pointed out
    that this boondoggle, high-speed rail system in California that has
    cost about $15 billion so far now is going to cost $130 billion.
      The quibbling over $4 billion right now of Federal money that Biden
    dumped in at the last minute, we should claw that back and then stop
    the spigot. No more spending. It is $110 billion short of what it is
    going to take to build the whole rail from San Francisco to L.A.
      We need to stop the boondoggle spending. The work of DOGE and the
    work of our Budget Committee are going to be important to set the
    course for all of America and on all of these things we have been
    wasting so much money on.
      Remember, Mr. Speaker, we have to respect the taxpayers. It is their
    money, not ours.

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