[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 23115-23116]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    REPUBLICANS WORKING HARD TO KEEP DEFICIT SPENDING UNDER CONTROL

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Gohmert) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, it is very difficult to listen to people 
come up and talk and talk and demagogue that, gee, the Republicans are 
letting the deficit grow so big, when the people that are talking about 
it keep promoting one giveaway after another giveaway after another 
giveaway. It seems to some of us that we spend half our time trying to 
fight off the incredible giveaway and deficit spending of those who are 
accusing the Republicans of letting the deficit get too big.
  You bet, it is too big for me. I do not like it. I do not want to 
saddle my children with indebtedness, so we are working and fighting to 
keep some of those who are complaining across the aisle from giving 
away even more. So thank goodness there are some conservatives who are 
trying to keep the deficit down. Thank goodness we are making headway. 
Thank goodness the deficit is going to be $200 billion less than what 
was expected. We are making progress.
  I cannot apologize for having tax cuts that go to those who pay 
taxes, because to give tax cuts to those who

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do not pay taxes is not a tax cut, it is a giveaway, yet another 
giveaway. After 9/11 we should have had another 1929-type depression, 
it was that devastating to this country. Yet because we had a President 
who pushed forward with a tax cut to those who pay taxes, we ended up 
having a mild recession and came charging back, as we continue to do.
  So in closing, it just seems to me that people who are pushing for 
giveaway after giveaway, or runaway spending, and who then come in and 
complain about the deficit is a bit, it seems to me, like a herd of 
cattle standing around a lake complaining that the water does not taste 
all that fresh. For those of us who are fish that are trying to have 
clean water, it is just a little difficult to have people plopping 
stuff in the water that is just tough to swallow.

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