[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23611]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          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, Americans are writing us, sending us e-
mails, calling us, stopping us at the grocery store and at the high 
school football game on Friday night, and they are telling us that they 
want to see us reduce government spending. They support us on the $35 
billion in reductions already part of the 2006 budget plan, and they 
support our effort to begin eliminating 98 programs that have shown 
little, if any, results.
  They appreciate the Speaker of this House making fiscal 
responsibility a part of his economic agenda, putting that at the heart 
of our economic security of this Nation. But our constituents do not 
appreciate that not one Democrat in this House, not one, has stood up 
to support our effort to get that 2006 budget savings from $35 billion 
to $50 billion.
  Americans do not appreciate that the Democrats are refusing to call 
for across-the-board cuts. They will not even support a 1 percent 
reduction, not even 1 percent, Mr. Speaker. If the liberals in this 
House had their way, we would be spending billions of dollars more 
every year.
  I hope the American people will reach out and let them know that they 
would like to see Federal spending reduced.

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