[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15862]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REPUBLICANS ARE ALL ABOUT DELAY

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, nothing could be further from the truth 
than the Republican claims of increased spending. The fact of the 
matter is, during the 12 years that they were in the majority spending 
on the budget on appropriations bills increased every year. It was a 
free-spending Congress. It was a Republican Congress that continued to 
put this country further and further into debt.
  And now that the Democratic majority is trying to pass bills, what is 
happening on the other side? They're trying to delay it. That's all 
they're about is delay.
  They couldn't pass a budget in the last Congress. They couldn't pass 
the appropriations bills before they lost control. They increased 
spending every year. Don't believe their rhetoric.
  When Democrats took control, we vowed to do things differently. We 
vowed to pass a budget, and we did that earlier this year. We also 
vowed to pass every appropriations bill in a timely fashion, and that's 
what we're trying to do.
  But rather than joining us and making this institution run more 
smoothly, congressional Republicans have chosen to constantly bring 
forward procedural motions to delay action on the spending bills that 
help us protect our homeland and help the veterans.

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