[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 13094-13095]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   THE HOUSE BUDGET RAISES TAXES AND SPENDING AT UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS

  (Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin. Mr. Speaker, today the Democrat majority is 
going to bring the House budget resolution to the floor. Last month 
when they passed the budget resolution, it was the largest tax increase 
in American history. Today they are bringing a budget resolution to the 
floor that is slightly an improvement: It is the second largest tax 
increase in American history. And the only thing that is separating 
this budget from being the largest tax increase in American history is 
what they call the ``tax trigger,'' and under their tax trigger, if 
they actually get to spend all of the money they are hoping to spend, 
then the surpluses will not materialize and no taxes will be spared and 
it will yet again become the largest tax increase in American history.
  This budget is unprecedented in its scope of its ability to tax and 
spend. The highest levels of taxes we have ever seen in this country 
and the highest levels of spending. That is not a way to balance the 
budget and set our

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fiscal house in order. We should vote against this budget, which raises 
taxes and raises spending at unprecedented levels.

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