[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11056]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING

  (Mr. MORAN of Virginia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MORAN of Virginia. Madam Speaker, under Chairman Spratt's 
leadership, the Congress is poised to pass a budget resolution. But 
unfortunately it's likely to be a party-line vote. The Republicans are 
asking us to trust them, they have a better way. The only sane response 
to that is, You gotta be kidding.
  You had 8 years to manage this country's budget and you blew it. In 
fact, you took a $5.6 trillion projected surplus and turned it into 
$5.8 trillion of deficits. It's the worst fiscal management over a 
Presidential administration in American history. And now they want us 
to trust them?
  In fact, we have stayed afloat by borrowing. And now our biggest 
debtor is the Communist Chinese dictatorship. They own more American 
debt than anyone else.
  We have had more Americans unemployed, more Americans in poverty, and 
more Americans without health insurance. This budget needs to pass for 
the sake of the American people. We need to look back and realize who 
the American people can trust to be fiscally responsible.

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