[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5675]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS FAILED TO PASS A BUDGET

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Duffy) for 3 minutes.
  Mr. DUFFY. First of all, I think many of us here in this House want 
to see the government to continue to be funded. But let's review what 
has happened here.
  Last year, the Democrats failed to pass a budget. They failed to 
propose a budget. So this Congress, we're here doing the work of last 
year's House and Senate.
  We proposed a bill to fund the government, and in that bill, we cut 
$61 billion. That is under the backstop of the fact that we're going to 
borrow $1.6 trillion this year alone. Our national debt is $14 
trillion. The Democrats in the Senate say they don't like our proposal.
  That's okay. If you don't like it, pass your own proposal. Give us a 
counterproposal, and we will consider it. But the bottom line is the 
Senate has failed to act. They haven't sent us a counterproposal.
  So what we've done is we've passed two extensions to fund the 
government, and again yesterday we passed a third. The Senate isn't 
going to take it up.
  Again, if you don't like our proposal, give us your own. We can't 
negotiate with ourselves. We're willing to sit down and talk, but we 
can't continue to put out our proposals and our ideas and have you fail 
to give us a response.

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