[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Pages 11896-11897]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               THE BUDGET

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, it is clear the budget the Democrats 
passed last week on a party-line vote spends too much, taxes too much, 
and borrows too much. As a result, the President has now proposed some 
modest spending reductions totaling a fraction--a fraction--of a 
percent of the trillions his budget would add to the debt.
  Well, that is a start, but with Democrats in Congress adding to the 
national debt at a rate of more than $100 billion every month already 
this year, and with a budget that triples the already unsustainable 
public debt over the next decade, it is clear there is not much more we 
can do to protect our children and grandchildren from the unprecedented 
trillions in additional debt proposed by this administration.

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  Madam President, I yield the floor.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Kansas.
  Mr. ROBERTS. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in 
morning business--in fact, I think we are in morning business. I ask 
unanimous consent to be recognized for 20 minutes.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so 
ordered.

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