[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17492]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NEED FOR FISCAL DISCIPLINE

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. As most Americans know, in February of this year, this 
Democrat Congress and this administration passed a $1 trillion stimulus 
bill, with the promise that we would see immediate relief. Even at the 
Web site for the Recovery Act there is the statement, The Recovery Act 
is providing immediate fiscal relief, et cetera, et cetera. But the 
facts tell a different story, Mr. Speaker.
  The administration said that if the stimulus bill was passed, that 
unemployment wouldn't pass 8 percent. It's 9.5 today. Almost 2 million 
Americans have lost their job since the stimulus was passed.
  Remarkably, this administration continues to argue that the stimulus 
is working. The President of the United States actually said the 
stimulus had ``done its job,'' and in fact told CNN over the weekend 
that the stimulus was ``working exactly as we anticipated.''
  His own Treasury Secretary said that the country was ``going through 
a necessary and healthy adjustment.'' A healthy economy, a stimulus 
bill that had done it's job?
  Mr. Speaker, the American people know better. What we need in this 
Congress is not another big, old giveaway stimulus bill. What we need 
is fiscal discipline for Washington, D.C., and tax relief for working 
families, small businesses, and family farms. That's the Republican 
prescription for a real recovery, and we ought to get on with it.

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