[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 24025]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     PRAISING THE HOUSE LEADERSHIP

  (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, I rise tonight to say thank you to our 
leadership, to Speaker Hastert, to Mr. Blunt, to Ms. Pryce, to commend 
them for working through fiscal responsibility, budget control, for 
making it a priority and for standing firm as we move forward to 
reconciliation on the budget for this next fiscal year.
  I also want to commend our committee chairmen who are working hard to 
find the savings that are necessary to reduce what the Federal 
Government spends. They are holding markups, hearings, working through 
this process; and they are focused. Our membership is focused.
  The committee chairmen are to be commended for that work, and through 
this process the winners are going to be the American people. We are 
doing what they want, reining in government spending, being better 
stewards of their tax dollars. We have got a long way to go in the 
process. They are the winners. We are cutting back and terminating over 
98 programs. These are first steps to economic stability and fiscal 
responsibility.

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