[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13625]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SPENDING RESTRAINT

  (Mr. RYUN of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RYUN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, $164 billion of new Federal spending 
took place between 2001 and 2003, unrelated to defense and the events 
of 9/11. We are borrowing to spend, and we need to bring spending under 
control or we put future generations, our children and grandchildren, 
at risk with no hope of paying off this debt. We demonstrated that in 
1998 with the balanced budget showing fiscal responsibility, but years 
of surpluses has sparked a spending spree that does not stop when the 
money runs out.
  Alan Greenspan warned Congress that we must restrain spending. He 
said this last summer: ``I would like to see the restoration of PAYGO 
and discretionary caps which essentially will restrain the expanse of 
the deficit and indeed ultimately contain it.''
  I urge my colleagues to heed Greenspan's remarks and to have the 
opportunity to reign in spending and update the budget process.

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