[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10695]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




      RECORD-BREAKING DEFICITS MEAN CONGRESS SHOULD PASS A BUDGET

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, someone once said, If you can't budget, you 
can't govern. Those words came from my distinguished colleague from 
South Carolina, the current chairman of the Budget Committee. He 
uttered them in 2006 as ranking member of the committee. The question 
is, What does that mean for this Congress?
  Today, we face a budget deficit five times larger than the one that 
Congress faced in 2006 of $1.4 trillion, and here we are 2 months past 
the budget deadline and there is no budget. Unprecedented spending, 
unprecedented debt, and no budget.
  It is only 8 months into the current fiscal year and the Federal 
Government has racked up close to $1 trillion in new debt. Mr. Speaker, 
it's time for this Congress to prove it can govern and debate a budget. 
If today's record-breaking deficits aren't reason enough to debate a 
budget, then I don't know what is.

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