[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12007]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        FAILURE TO PASS A BUDGET

  (Mr. HERGER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HERGER. Madam Speaker, for the first time since 1974, the House 
has failed to pass a budget resolution. Instead of making tough 
decisions, congressional Democrats have chosen to keep their heads in 
the sand. A problem won't go away just by ignoring it. It will require 
real leadership and a commitment to fiscal discipline to tackle the 
out-of-control spending and debt that threatens our economic 
prosperity. Failure to even propose a budget fundamentally means that 
congressional Democrats have no plan and are content to ignore our 
skyrocketing debt.
  Madam Speaker, the American people know it's a failure of leadership 
to ignore the massive tax increases and the crushing burden of debt 
Washington is leaving our children and grandchildren.

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