[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 1]
[House]
[Pages 618-619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Graves) for 2 minutes.
  Mr. GRAVES of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, early reports indicate that 
President Obama will call for a new spending package during his State 
of the Union address tonight. Now, I have heard, as many of you have, 
that this might be masked, as he might say tonight, as targeted 
investments. More

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stimulus. Democrats speak for stimulus, but it will be hidden with 
calls for tepid spending cuts.
  Well, Mr. Speaker, Americans know that our debt is $14 trillion. They 
know that the President spent $1.3 trillion over the budget last year, 
only to see unemployment stay above 9 percent. Now is the time to pivot 
to fiscal responsibility. It's time to shred the President's maxed-out 
credit cards and cut his weekly allowance. It's time to tell our kids 
and grandkids that we don't want them to bear the burden of our 
generation's fiscal irresponsibility.
  Mr. Speaker, I, along with my constituents in north Georgia, hope 
that the early reports are wrong about another stimulus being proposed 
tonight. Rather than use a few spending cuts as window dressing for 
more spending, tonight is the President's opportunity to seize the 
moment, to be a leader, and get serious about spending reform.

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