[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 5924]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            PRESIDENT SHOULD VETO SUPPLEMENTAL SPENDING BILL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, with a record deficit and national debt, 
now is the time for Congress to practice fiscal discipline, even where 
funding the war on terror is concerned.
  While I have supported our troops and funding the rebuilding and 
reconstruction efforts along the gulf coast, I could not bring myself 
to support recent emergency funding legislation that left this House of 
Representatives at some $92 billion, including many elements that the 
President of the United States thought were unnecessary.
  Well, if things were bad before, they just got worse. Madam Speaker, 
the Senate is working on the emergency supplemental bill, and it is now 
at $106.5 billion and rising, including such unrelated measures as $3 
million for southern and eastern Kentucky tourism and $900,000 for 
Dartmouth College, to name two.
  Let us support funding the war on terror and support the families and 
communities affected by the hurricanes that hit the gulf coast, but let 
us do it in a fiscally responsible way. This legislation has become a 
fruit basket of spending unrelated to our war efforts and Katrina; and 
I say plainly, Mr. President, veto this bill.

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