[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9266]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          WHERE'S THE BUDGET?

  (Mr. GOODLATTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLATTE. Mr. Speaker, we have been asking all afternoon, 
where's the budget? We have even sent out bloodhounds trying to find 
this budget.
  Mr. Speaker, in 2006, Congressman Steny Hoyer, who is now the House 
Majority Leader, was quoted as saying enacting a budget was ``the most 
basic responsibility of governing.'' And Congressman John Spratt, who 
is now the chairman of the House Budget Committee said, ``If you can't 
budget, you can't govern.''
  Now, we are a month past the deadline and Speaker Pelosi and the 
Democratic leadership are showing no signs of complying with the law 
and coming forward with a budget for fiscal year 2011. Without a 
budget, there is no procedural enforcement mechanism to constrain 
spending. With the administration increasing nondefense discretionary 
spending by 84 percent since taking office, I fear that without a 
budget our national debt will continue to spiral out of control.
  Mr. Speaker, this will be first time since the Budget Act was enacted 
that the House will not have passed a budget. We want to know, Mr. 
Speaker, where is the budget?

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