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




                       WE NEED A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, Congress will raise the debt ceiling $1.9 
trillion to $14.6 trillion this week. The deficit last year, $1.5 
trillion. The budget introduced on Monday is another $1.5 trillion. 
We're over $12 trillion in debt, on our way to $20 trillion. The 
American people are saying, Enough is enough. Families and businesses 
in the last couple of years have had less revenues. They've made cuts. 
In the United States, 49 out of 50 Governors have had to balance their 
budgets. We need a constitutional balanced budget now. I would ask the 
President and congressional leaders to step up. Again, in the last 50 
years, we've only balanced the budget five times. We need real 
leadership and real courage, and we need it right now. We need to make 
the cuts and get the budget in line.

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