[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 12744-12745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    RESTORING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

  (Ms. TITUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TITUS. Mr. Speaker, after 8 years of economic policies that have 
left our Nation's fiscal house awash in red ink, this Congress is 
taking important steps to restore fiscal responsibility. We inherited a 
fiscal and economic mess that included soaring unemployment, a record 
deficit and a housing crisis. Faced with the worst recession in a 
generation, this Congress took unprecedented action in an effort to end 
our economic slide and turn our economy around.

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  First was the recovery package that invested in needed infrastructure 
and provided tax relief to 95 percent of working Americans. And now, 
with a budget that calls for health care reform, job creation, clean 
energy and investments in education, we will grow our economy while 
cutting the deficit by two-thirds over the next 5 years. By providing 
real oversight and honest accounting and with a commitment to fiscal 
responsibility, we are changing the way business is done in Washington.

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