[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10988-10989]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            WE NEED A BUDGET

  (Ms. FOXX asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, over the past weekend, President Obama sent a 
letter to Congress. He said we need to spend $50 billion ``as quickly 
as possible'' in order to ``jump-start private sector job creation.''
  I'm not sure if the President has read the unemployment reports 
lately, but 16 months since his trillion dollar stimulus bill became 
law, the private sector is still struggling under the tax and 
regulatory burden of an ever expanding Federal Government. Unemployment 
is at 9.7 percent, and frankly, the last thing the private sector needs 
is the fear of higher taxes to pay for more wasteful government 
spending.
  What this country needs as ``quickly as possible'' is for House 
Democrats to put forth an annual budget and for Congress and the 
President to have the courage to make real spending cuts. We can't keep 
spending billions of dollars and calling it ``emergency'' spending so 
that it doesn't have to be paid for, because eventually it will have to 
be paid for, and the American taxpayers know that day of reckoning is 
coming.
  It is time for Democrats in this Chamber to stop talking about fiscal 
discipline and actually do something about it. As your majority whip 
said over the weekend, this economy is your baby. So take 
responsibility, put a budget on the table, and let's debate it and give 
the American people a chance to hear which party is listening to them.

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