[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 14358]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         WE NEED A CONSTITUTIONAL BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT NOW

  (Mr. BUCHANAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BUCHANAN. Mr. Speaker, this weekend I had an opportunity in my 
community, Sarasota, Florida, to talk to a couple hundred people, 
working families and small businesses. They've had to cut their 
expenses 20, 30 percent, but yet Congress is incapable of cutting its 
own expenses.
  First 206 years, the history of our country, we accumulated a 
trillion dollars. The last 9 months we accumulated a trillion dollars. 
Last year was a trillion and a half dollar deficit. You would think 
after last year we would cut the expenses, no. But this year, another 
trillion and a half dollar deficit. Next year they're projecting 
another trillion and a half dollar deficit.
  You can talk about Greece. We're the next Greece. We have to have a 
constitutional balanced budget amendment. It's a bill I introduced my 
first year here. It just says simply you can't spend more than you take 
in. We need a constitutional balanced budget amendment now.

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