[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1078]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          IN SUPPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S FY 2011 BUDGET REQUEST

  (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, on Monday the President unveiled his budget 
to help restart our economy and get our deficit under control after 
years of mismanagement by the previous administration. As we make the 
hard choices that are needed, we must remember where we started. When 
President Obama was sworn into office, our economy was on the brink of 
collapse, 700,000 Americans were losing their jobs every month, and our 
financial and housing markets were in free-fall.
  Working with Congress, President Obama took immediate and 
extraordinary steps to repair this economic and fiscal mess that he 
inherited. A year later, our economy is slowly but surely recovering 
but too many families continue to struggle. Unemployment remains 
unacceptably high. That's why job creation and economic recovery are 
the central focus of the President's budget. It requests $100 billion 
for a job creation package to help small businesses access credit and 
hire new workers.
  It also invests in education, clean energy and our infrastructure, 
all essential for our long-term economic vitality. Finally, the 
President takes the first steps toward restoring the fiscal 
responsibility that had been lost in the past decade.
  Mr. Speaker, after the mess we've inherited, we clearly have our work 
cut out for us, but the President's budget provides us with a good 
blueprint to meet these huge challenges.

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