[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THEY JUST DON'T GET IT

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, with a $14 trillion national debt and a $1.65 
trillion deficit this year alone, our Federal Government is facing a 
fiscal crisis of unprecedented proportions. With the passage of H.R. 1, 
House Republicans took an important first step toward turning our 
national government back in the direction of fiscal discipline, 
defunding ObamaCare, and even restoring the sanctity of life to the 
center of the Federal budget. But it was rejected by liberals in the 
Senate. In fact, last week, the Senate majority leader called the 
Republican budget cuts mean spirited, reckless, and irresponsible, even 
defending Federal funding for a cowboy poetry festival. Seriously.
  Is it reckless and irresponsible to ask for $61 billion in cuts when 
the national debt is 230 times that size? The truth is, they just don't 
get it.
  I think it's time to take a stand for taxpayers and for future 
generations. And I will not vote for the short-term continuing 
resolution that is coming to the floor of the House today, to make that 
statement.
  Things don't change in Washington until they have to. It's time to 
pick a fight.

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