[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17702]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Ms. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, last week a constituent from 
Washingtonville, New York, wrote this to me:
  ``I balance my family budget, so please explain to me why we don't 
have the will to balance the Federal budget? Pass a balanced budget 
amendment and future generations will be far better off. If not, we 
will have left them our errors.''
  Another one of my constituents--his first name is Joseph--and Joseph, 
I want to assure you that I agree with you completely. These are my 
sons. This is my family. These are Will and Jack. Together, as our 
distinguished colleague from Texas just told us, they owe nearly 
$100,000 to the national debt as of today. They had no part at all in 
creating it.
  Every dollar that the Federal Government spends has 40 cents in debt. 
That is unconscionable intergenerational theft. It must stop, and we 
must stop it this week. I urge all of our colleagues across the aisle 
to pass the balanced budget amendment.


                Announcement By the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will remind Members to direct 
their remarks to the Speaker and not to a perceived viewing audience.

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