[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3464]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            DEFICIT SPENDING

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, last night I sat here for much of an hour 
listening to Democratic colleagues across the aisle decrying how 
terrible deficit spending was. And the tax cuts brought us record 
revenue into the U.S. Treasury. That wasn't the problem. The problem 
was that we were deficit spending. And that's a large reason why the 
Democrats won the majority in November of 2006, to cut out deficit 
spending.
  So, after hearing my friends across the aisle last night talking 
about how bad deficit spending was, I went back, and as I thought about 
it last night, it could mean only one thing. Our Democratic colleagues, 
including the majority leader that spoke so eloquently last night here, 
are going to vote with us against this deficit monstrosity because 
parents, most parents, would do anything to make the life of their 
children better. But not here in Congress. We've got a bill that is 
going to allow us to live better at the expense of our children, and we 
should not do this to future generations if we care.

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