[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9250]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE'S THE 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, back in my beloved Indiana and all across 
this country, families are hurting. This is a difficult time in the 
life of our economy. Families are sitting down and making hard choices. 
They are writing a family budget. Small businesses and family farmers 
are doing the same, sitting down, sharpening their pencils, and making 
the tough choices to keep the doors open and the lights on. They are 
doing that everywhere but in Washington, D.C.
  The American people deserve to know that this Democrat majority has 
not produced a budget. For the first time since the adoption of the 
Budget Act, the House of Representatives has decided to abandon its 
responsibility to sit down and write a budget. It's truly 
extraordinary.
  The chairman of the Budget Committee, the distinguished gentleman 
John Spratt, said famously, ``If you can't budget, you can't govern.'' 
Well, by abdicating their responsibility to sit down and make the hard 
choices, this majority is arguing that they in and of themselves cannot 
govern, they are unwilling to govern. The American people deserve 
leadership in the Congress that is as good as our families and our 
small businesses. They deserve a Congress that writes a budget.
  Mr. Speaker, where's the budget?

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