[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12961]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


[[Page 12961]]

              GOVERNMENT SPENDING CAUSES DEFICIT SPENDING

  (Mr. BRADY of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Speaker, Washington is out of touch with the 
real world again. Tax relief does not cause deficit spending, as we 
hear; spending causes deficit spending.
  Washington spends every dime we send up here. That is the reason why 
this Congress stopped deficit spending in America. That is why this 
Congress stopped 40 years of dipping into the Social Security and 
Medicare Trust Funds, and that is why this Congress has started to pay 
down a good amount of the national public debt. Mr. Speaker, make no 
mistake. The very reason we sent money back home to the people is 
because we will spend every dime of it.
  Look what we spend. Let us talk about the outhouse, the $1 million, 
two-seater outhouse that our National Parks and Wildlife built a year 
ago. Let us talk about the salmon. We spend $5 billion a year helping 
salmon swim upstream to their spawning grounds. We could put each fish 
in a first-class ticket seat and fly them to the top of the river each 
year and still save money. We have enough dollars for the priorities of 
America. What we do not have is enough for the priorities of silliness. 
Tax relief does not cause deficit spending, spending causes deficit 
spending.

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