[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23080]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       PREVENTING FISCAL DISASTER

  (Mr. HENSARLING asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HENSARLING. Madam Speaker, after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane 
Rita, we must ensure that a great natural disaster of this generation 
does not turn into a great fiscal disaster for the next.
  To pay for Federal hurricane relief, there are only one of three 
places that the money can come from: Raising taxes on the American 
people, passing even more debt on to our children, or to actually 
reduce the growth of Federal spending by reforming programs and 
prioritizing spending.
  Democrats want to raise taxes and thus destroy jobs. They want to 
inflate the Federal budget and thus decimate the family budget.
  They accuse us of being fiscally irresponsible, but every time we 
pass a budget, they offer a substitute that spends billions and 
billions more. They claim our budget policies hurt the poor, but we 
instead have reduced the ranks of the poor by helping create 4.1 
million new jobs so families can increase spending on housing and 
health care. Compassion for the poor is measured by the number of jobs 
you create, not the number of government checks you write.

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