[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9264]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             PASS A BUDGET

  (Mr. FRANKS of Arizona asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. FRANKS of Arizona. Mr. Speaker, a government is what it spends, 
and a government without a budget is a government without direction. A 
highly intelligent man once put it this way: ``If you can't budget, you 
can't govern.'' The man responsible for those words was none over than 
John Spratt, the Democratic chairman of the House Budget Committee. He 
made that statement 4 years ago.
  Likewise, 4 years ago now-House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said, 
``Enacting a budget is the most basic responsibility of governing.''
  Mr. Speaker, in the interest of bipartisanship let me just strongly 
affirm the sentiments of my Democrat colleagues in this case. As we now 
find ourselves well over a month past the April 15 budget deadline, 
with essentially no progress to be shown on any budget, something that 
hasn't happened in 35 years, truly this tax-and-spend Democrat majority 
is failing the most basic responsibility of governing and is 
categorically demonstrating its inability to govern in any responsible 
way.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve better.

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