[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11409]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         NO BUDGET IS NO ANSWER

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Well, it's becoming more obvious every day to the American 
people that this administration was slow to responded in the gulf, and 
the Democrats still don't have a plan. They don't have a clear plan to 
contain the sea of oil in the gulf and, remarkably, here on Capitol 
Hill, Democrats don't even have a plan to contain the sea of red ink in 
Washington, D.C.
  Announcing this week, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer confirmed the 
Democrats' response to runaway Federal spending is to not do a budget. 
Failing to lead is not leadership. Not doing a budget is not an answer. 
The Democrats' refusal to write a budget is a shocking abdication of 
duty and a historic failure of leadership.
  There has been a lot of talk these days about governing philosophies 
here on Capitol Hill, but their governing philosophy? Don't govern. 
This Congress owes the American people a budget, a list of priorities, 
and an outline of the hard choices that are necessary to put our fiscal 
house in order. No budget is no answer.

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