[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       ENOUGH TAXING AND SPENDING

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the deficit for this year 
exceeded $1 trillion, just in this year. In fact, since President Obama 
has taken office, more than 2 million Americans have lost their jobs. 
And now with that backdrop, what is this administration talking about? 
First of all, the President is going around saying, The stimulus bill 
has done its job and is working exactly as we anticipated. Did they 
anticipate a bill that would cost $800 billion in money we don't have 
and now 2 million more Americans losing their jobs?
  It is time we get this right. While the White House is talking about 
even another stimulus bill, the American people are saying enough is 
enough. Stop the spending, the borrowing and the taxing and let's get 
Americans back to work. Let's actually provide that relief to small 
businesses and average American families that we, on the Republican 
side, proposed and President Obama didn't even want to look at.
  It's time to bring bipartisanship and real solutions to this problem 
that is facing our country instead of that tired old adage of spending 
and spending and borrowing and now taxing with this cap-and-trade and 
this health care government takeover. We have got to get back on track.

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