[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 18577]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  RETURN FISCAL DISCIPLINE TO CONGRESS

  (Mr. HEINRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. Speaker, I'm proud today to be an original 
cosponsor of the PAYGO legislation that we're going to see on the floor 
later today because it represents a return to the responsible budgeting 
principles that we saw in the 1990s.
  During that time, the Federal Government made difficult fiscal 
decisions, but those tough choices took our country from record 
deficits to record surpluses. Yet, the Bush administration abandoned 
PAYGO in 2002, and our country has returned to record deficits that 
have since doubled our national debt.
  Mr. Speaker, we owe it to the working families that elected us to 
match their tough household budgeting decisions during these difficult 
economic times. We must once again commit to reduce our national 
deficit and to tighten the purse strings here in Washington.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for this legislation and to return 
fiscal discipline to the Congress.

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