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




                          AVOIDING CALIFORNIA

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, the failure of this House to pass a 
budget at a time of unprecedented deficit spending speaks volumes of 
the House majority. In order to resolve a crisis, you must first be 
willing to face it; and if you can't face the problem, you can't deal 
with it. That is what the budget process is, the painful but necessary 
assessment of our financial affairs. Without it, there can't even be a 
theoretical solution.
  I've seen this before in California. As left-wing majorities took 
control of our financial affairs and boosted spending at a reckless 
pace, we watched the orderly budget process disintegrate into a mere 
sham. Unable and unwilling to face up to the consequences of their out-
of-control spending, they simply abandoned the budget process. 
Ultimately, they brought the most prosperous State in our Nation to the 
brink of bankruptcy.
  Mr. Speaker, California is an example to be avoided, not imitated.

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