[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17543]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL DEBT

  (Mr. SALI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. SALI. Well, Mr. Speaker, and ladies and gentlemen that are here, 
there has been a great discussion about who is actually responsible for 
all this debt, which team it is. And I think at the end of the game, 
the conclusion has to be that, by golly, maybe you just can't trust 
anybody around here. And so I would encourage the good majority leader 
to make sure that a balanced budget amendment gets passed through this 
House this year so that the next time that the Republicans take control 
of this body, by golly, they won't engage in any deficit spending.
  There is the challenge to the majority right now, to make sure that 
you keep the Republicans under control.

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