[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21062]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, fiscal responsibility is one of those 
tenets of our Republican philosophy. It is something our constituents 
remind us of every day. A constituent called yesterday following our 
Operation Offset press conference. She liked what she saw. Her advice 
was an old adage from her granny: Mind your pennies and your dollars 
will mind themselves.
  I said, No, we're minding your pennies, the taxpayers' pennies, their 
dollars. This is their money. It is not government's money. We need to 
remember that.
  Mr. Speaker, this House under our Republican leadership has passed a 
2006 budget that worked to reduce discretionary spending. It is a great 
step in beginning to rein in the growth of government. I commend them 
for that. This House has passed tax relief that has led to 3 million 
new jobs being created. We need to keep that. I want to thank the 
leadership for that good work and to thank them for encouraging every 
Member of this body to work with them to find a way for us to address 
the needs that our Nation has in response to Hurricane Katrina. I want 
to thank Republican Study Committee Chairman Pence for his good work on 
Operation Offset in providing us with another opportunity to reaffirm 
that we are the party of fiscal responsibility.

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