[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 15620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                THE MOST FISCALLY WASTEFUL CONGRESS EVER

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, in a few minutes we will begin voting on 26 
amendments to the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations bill, but the 
overriding problem is that this bill is a 12 percent increase to $65 
billion.
  At a time when families and small businesses all over this country 
have been tightening their spending, at a time when foreclosures and 
bankruptcies are still at record levels, the Federal Government keeps 
going on its merry way, spending like we have just boocous of cash.
  All this comes after the $787 billion stimulus bill which the 
Washington Post said was a ``massive financial windfall'' for Federal 
agencies. A 12 percent increase in times of 3 percent inflation, when 
our national debt is now over $13 trillion, is just ridiculous.
  We would not be having all these problems if we'd had fiscally 
conservative Congresses for the last 45 years. Now we seem to have the 
most fiscally wasteful Congress we have ever had.

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