[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Pages 9267-9268]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            DEADLINE HAS PASSED FOR ANNUAL BUDGET RESOLUTION

  (Mr. LAMBORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. LAMBORN. Mr. Speaker, over a month has gone by since the April 15 
deadline for Congress to pass its annual budget resolution. House 
Democrats, though, haven't even bothered to offer up a proposal. But 
without a budget resolution, it is still clear Democrats will go on 
spending unbelievable sums of money, as if a $940 billion health care 
bill, a $787 billion failed stimulus bill, and teeing up more permanent 
bailout authority weren't enough, House Democrats are going to spend 
another $200 billion this week on another massive spending bill.
  The majority of this is not offset by other spending cuts in the 
budget. This latest spending spree will increase our annual deficit by 
$134 billion.
  To the extent that there is any budgeting here in Washington at all, 
we are budgeting for bankruptcy. The Congressional Budget Office 
predicts that our debt will rise to an alarming 90 percent of GDP by 
the end of this decade.

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  This is unsustainable and puts us in the same territory as the 
country of Greece. Having already spent trillions of dollars, we are 
not even trying to budget for the next year.
  This is unacceptable. Americans don't handle their checkbooks this 
way and neither should Congress.

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