[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 21521]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY WANT TO CUT SPENDING

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, this weekend on national 
television, Mr. Axelrod, who works for the President at the White 
House, said that the big meeting on the Mall really didn't amount to 
much, and it really didn't represent what the American people think.
  I don't know what that guy is smoking down at the White House, but I 
think it might be illegal.
  The people in this country at the TEA parties and on the Mall this 
weekend are telling every Member of Congress and in the Senate they 
want to cut spending. They don't want more government intrusion into 
their lives, and they want just to be left alone.
  But this body here, and my colleagues on the Democrat side, continue 
to come up with new proposals, new spending, and we are spending 
trillions and trillions of dollars that we simply don't have. And our 
kids are going to bear the responsibility for that because we are not 
doing our job.
  And, secondly, I just wanted to say one more thing. This ACORN group 
needs to be investigated. They are getting access to almost $10 
billion, and we know there are an awful lot of crooked things going on. 
It needs to be investigated by this body. My colleagues on the Democrat 
side, who are the chairmen of the committees, need to listen.
  We need to investigate ACORN.

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