[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9233]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 THE DEBT ON OUR CHILDREN'S GENERATION

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, last year when I began deciding whether or 
not I wanted to serve in Congress or run for Congress, my wife and I 
were talking quite a bit about it, and our big concern was our 
children. I have a 15, 13, and 11-year-old girl/boy/girl, and our 
biggest concern was, what would campaigning and being in Washington and 
commuting do to our children? And as my wife and I began discussing 
that even further, it wasn't even what this was going to do to our 
children but what could our service or my service do here in Washington 
for our children and our children's generation.
  And that has been the concern as we go into this week, and we are 
beginning to look at the budget that's being proposed, the debt that 
we're going to put on our children. That's what drove me to run for 
office. And I was really concerned about the debt that was going to be 
moving forward, the debt that we had and here we are increasing and 
increasing the debt and the burden on our children. And that is a 
concern that I have.
  I have a great love for my children and their generation. I believe 
that we need to be very careful about any debt that we put on our 
children or their generation.

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