[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4364]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DISCIPLINED SPENDING BY CONGRESS

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, the United States Congress is the only 
place that I know of that we talk about trillions of dollars, trillion 
with a ``T.''
  How much is $1 trillion? It is a number so large it is hard to get 
your arms around it. But if you were to spend $1 million a day, $1 
million every day, it would take you almost 3,000 years to get to $1 
trillion.
  This Nation right now is more than $14 trillion in debt. The country 
is going to spend more than $3.5 trillion over 12 months. More than 
$220 billion was added to our debt just last month.
  Somehow, some way, this government has got to recognize that we are 
going to have to do more with less; that the proper role of government 
does not allow us to unilaterally use this, the voting card of the 
United States Congress, as the biggest credit card that has ever faced 
this planet. We have to do more with less. We have to be disciplined.

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