[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FISCAL YEAR 2011 BUDGET

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, when I look at the President's budget for 
fiscal year 2011, I think about what Albert Einstein said one time. He 
said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a 
different result is the very definition of insanity. Well, after years 
of runaway Federal spending under both political parties, and after 
promises by this administration of fiscal discipline and reform, the 
President's budget more than doubles the debt. It drives spending to a 
record $3.8 trillion. It pushes the deficit to a record $1.6 trillion, 
and raises taxes by more than $2 trillion by 2020, during the worst 
recession in 25 years.
  Despite future spending freezes promised and commissions, it doesn't 
change the fact that, by any measure, this budget is insane. The 
American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to 
prosperity. They know that deficits and debt threaten our prosperity 
and our posterity. House Republicans have a better plan, a plan built 
on hard choices, fiscal responsibility, and entitlement reform. On 
behalf of our families, on behalf of our economy, we say, let's reject 
this irresponsible and unsustainable budget, and let's come together 
around the principles of fiscal responsibility and reform, and let's 
put our house in order.

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