[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 23]
[House]
[Page 31426]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     GET OUR COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK

  (Mr. MORAN of Kansas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. MORAN of Kansas. Mr. Speaker, Americans are being forced to foot 
the bill for trillions of dollars of increased government spending this 
year while they are struggling to make their own ends meet.
  As Kansans sit at their kitchen table trying to balance their 
checkbooks, this Congress has been borrowing and spending money like 
there is no tomorrow. The latest example of this reckless spending is a 
2,500-page omnibus spending bill approved by the House of 
Representatives yesterday. This $447 billion package does not require 
any of the tough choices that Americans are having to make every day in 
this difficult economy. Unfortunately, for the next generation of 
Americans, there will be severe consequences from our government's 
failure to control spending and the resulting huge increases in our 
national debt.
  The Democrat leadership will soon try to raise our $12.1 trillion 
national debt limit by an additional $1.8 trillion. The Federal 
Government is mortgaging our Nation's future and its well-being to 
countries like China. The result of this spend-and-borrow approach is 
evident.
  President Obama and Speaker Pelosi, show bold leadership and get our 
country back on track by cutting spending and reducing our country's 
debt, not by omnibus spending bills and debt ceiling increases.

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