[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10691]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             PASS A BUDGET

  (Mr. CARTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CARTER. Mr. Speaker, a recent Gallup Poll tells us that the 
American people rank the growing debt in this country as the single 
most threatening issue to the future of our country's well-being.
  When the American public in their homes face a debt crisis, the first 
thing they do is prepare a budget so they can live within their means 
and start to reduce their debt burden. But this House, under the 
Democratic leadership, has chosen to prepare no budget. In fact, for 
the first time in modern budgetary history, they are telling us there 
will be no budget here in this House this year.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people are crying out for us to get control 
of our spending. How can we control our spending without a budget? It's 
a crying shame there is no budget. No wonder we've got issues with 
jobs.
  And by the way, when you're trying to create jobs, why do you shut 
down a major industry in the gulf and kill tens of thousands of jobs up 
and down the gulf coast, stopping drilling in the Gulf of Mexico?

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