[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23786]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

  (Mr. GINGREY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGREY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a fiscal conservative, and, 
more importantly, as a Member who believes in making the tough choices 
and tightening the belt of the Federal budget. Every American family 
knows that you do not spend money on big purchases unless you have a 
way to pay for it. Yet our Federal Government does this every day.
  There are two ways to get our fiscal house back in order: we can 
raise taxes, as some of our colleagues across the aisle have suggested; 
or we can rein in government spending. Well, we Republicans believe 
that American families already pay too high a price in taxes, and we 
know that there are too many places where our bureaucracy is bloated 
and our programs are redundant and ineffective.
  So rather than making the American taxpayers shoulder the burden of 
excessive Federal spending, I say we put the weight on ourselves, the 
Congress, and work our hardest to cut the fat out of the Federal 
budget.
  I believe that government should tailor its spending to accommodate 
lower taxes, rather than tailoring its taxes to accommodate higher 
spending called for by the Democrats. Now is the time to treat our 
Federal budget as we would our household budget. We need to make the 
tough decisions.

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