[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10693]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               LEADERSHIP REQUIRES MAKING TOUGH DECISIONS

  (Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. McMORRIS RODGERS. Mr. Speaker, you know, America is broke, and 
it's time for us to start making tough decisions. Continuing debt 
spending is actually the easy choice. Leadership requires making tough 
decisions, and yet we stand here today as Members of Congress with the 
majority not even sending up a budget.
  Now, the Obama administration did propose a budget. It was $3.8 
trillion funded with revenue that totaled $2.2 trillion. The majority 
doesn't even seem to want to address the budget. Now, when we were in 
the majority, John Spratt said, If you can't forward a budget, you 
can't govern, and yet today we don't see a budget.
  All across this country, American families have had to readdress 
their budget, make tough decisions in their family households. That's 
what you do during difficult times. Businesses have had to make tough 
decisions, and yet this Congress is refusing to make the tough choices. 
Instead we continue the deficit spending, tacking on debt to the next 
generation.
  America deserves better. Our children and our grandchildren deserve 
better than continued deficit spending.

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