[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13627]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  VOTE YES ON THE SPENDING CONTROL ACT

  (Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for years, the 
Democrats have offered a simple approach to the American economy: 
Increased taxes on the hard working American people. For starters, we 
voted down three proposals by the Democrats during the debate on the 
budget. Each would have raised taxes by over its $00 billion minimum to 
the American people.
  Last year Republicans rejected Democrats' alternatives to major 
legislation that would have added almost $1 trillion to the deficit, 
Mr. Speaker. Now I understand that they may be proposing a resolution 
to the floor calling for billions and billions of dollars of, again, 
increased taxes to the hard working American people.
  I hope, and this week we should have a chance, to reign in spending 
by voting in favor of the Spending Control Act and some amendments to 
that Act.
  As a member of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. Speaker, I have heard 
endless rhetoric by our friends the Democrats about the deficit, but at 
the end of the day, all they propose is more spending and more taxes. 
If they are serious, Mr. Speaker, about reducing the deficit, then they 
will join us voting yes on the Spending Control Act.

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