[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 7921]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE FEDERAL BUDGET

  (Mr. WALBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WALBERG. Right now, taxpayers in south central Michigan are 
making tough choices every day to ensure their family budgets are 
balanced. They do so by cutting spending and having fiscal discipline. 
It's time we make these same commonsense choices on a Federal level.
  This week in the House, we will begin debating a budget plan for the 
fiscal year 2008. A budget proposal introduced by my colleagues on the 
opposite side of the aisle would impose the largest tax increase in 
American history, nearly $400 billion over the next 5 years. Their plan 
would institute a $3,000 tax increase for every typical Michigander and 
put off needed entitlement reform for at least another 5 years.
  Congress needs to pass a balanced budget bill without raising taxes. 
We need to make tax relief permanent for hardworking American families 
and reform unsustainable entitlements. The American people long for a 
Congress that puts our fiscal house in order on a Federal level, but 
they want this done without expanding the size and scope of the Federal 
Government.
  I urge my colleagues to oppose any budget plan that proposes a 
``spend now, reform later'' mentality.

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