[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9256]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRILLION DOLLAR WEEK IN D.C.

  (Mr. NEUGEBAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEUGEBAUER. Mr. Speaker, I saw a headline yesterday that said 
it's going to be another trillion dollar week in Washington, DC. We are 
going to spend nearly $1 trillion this week in Washington, and you know 
what? We don't even have a budget. There's another problem: we don't 
have $1 trillion either.
  So now what are we going to do? Well, we're going to go out and 
borrow some more money from the Chinese and other people. Remember the 
old days when you used to go to your parents and ask them if they could 
get a loan? Now we go to our children and ask them if they will pay 
back our loans.
  We hear a lot of talk in this town about cutting expenses, cutting 
the budget. Well, it would be nice to cut a budget if we had one, but 
we don't. And how does the majority think that they can run this 
country or lead this Nation when they don't even have a budget? We 
don't even know what the deficit is going to be, but we hear it's going 
to be $1.8 trillion. And by the way, a trillion, that's 12 zeros, in 
case anyone wants to know. In fact, Mr. Spratt said, who is the 
chairman of the Budget Committee who is supposed to bring us a budget, 
If you can't bring a budget, you can't govern. So we ask the question 
now, can this Democratic majority govern?

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