[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21489]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  ACROSS-THE-BOARD SPENDING REDUCTIONS

  (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, last week I received a call from a 
constituent, and she said, As you are looking at Hurricane Katrina, I 
want you to remember something. My grandmother used to say, Mind your 
pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves.
  How very true, and in that regard, I filed three bills yesterday, one 
I think every Member of the House can decide they can support, H.R. 
3903, H.R. 3904 and H.R. 3906. Each calls for across-the-board spending 
reductions in non-defense, non-homeland security discretionary 
spending.
  H.R. 3903 is a 1 percent reduction which would be a $4 billion 
savings for the year. Two percent is the H.R. 3904 bill. That is an $8 
billion savings. $21.5 billion could be saved with H.R. 3906, which is 
a 5 percent reduction.
  One of the things we know, Mr. Speaker, is that across-the-board 
reductions work. The bureaucrats in buildings are called upon to be 
responsive to the taxpayers to account for how they are spending every 
single penny that they are being appropriated.
  So I encourage all the Members of the body to join me in cosponsoring 
H.R. 3903, H.R. 3904 and H.R. 3906 and reduce our Federal outlays.

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