[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25389]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REPUBLICAN CONGRESS LOST ITS WAY

  (Ms. WATSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. WATSON. Mr. Speaker, Congress will take up a continuing 
resolution to fund the Federal Government after September 30. While the 
House has passed all 12 of its appropriation bills, Senate Republicans 
continue to obstruct efforts to finish the process over in the other 
Chamber, making the continuing resolution necessary.
  In our appropriations bills, we rejected the President's most harmful 
cuts and made targeted investments in veterans care, education, health 
care, homeland security, and law enforcement. And we did this all by 
remaining fiscally responsible.
  This is something new around here. Past Republican Congresses refused 
to abide by the pay-as-you-go philosophy. As a result, they turned a 
$5.6 trillion 10-year surplus under the Clinton administration into a 
$3 trillion deficit today.
  Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan summarizes the 
Republican stewardship of the Federal budget best when he states in his 
new book: ``The Republicans in Congress lost their way.''
  Mr. Speaker, House Democrats will continue to be fiscally 
responsible.

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