[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9266-9267]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               CONGRESS NEEDS TO CONTROL FEDERAL SPENDING

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, let me just reiterate what my good friend 
from Virginia said. The Budget chairman here in the U.S. House of 
Representatives said, ``If you can't budget, you can't govern.'' Let's 
take him at his word. I think everybody on this side of the aisle 
believes that that is very true.
  It's becoming increasingly clear, however, that House Democrats 
cannot come up with a budget. American families come up with a budget, 
but continually Democrats sidestep it and show no progress towards 
trying to even attempt to create a budget.
  This Congress has set upon an agenda where it's the first time since 
1974 where there will be no budget passed in the House of 
Representatives. Without a budget, there are no controls in place to 
rein in this spending. It's a sign that Congress lacks the leadership 
to set a framework to limit spending or control entitlement growth.

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  Not passing a budget resolution sends a message to the American 
taxpayers that Congress is not serious about addressing the fiscal 
crisis we have here and they are unable to meet the challenges of 
uncontrolled spending. While the Democrat leadership talks a good game, 
we have yet to see any action.

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