[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            DEBT LIMIT VOTE

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, you know, since this President 
has taken office, we have had the failed stimulus, omnibus, TARP II, 
Government Motors, the government takeover of health care. Well, the 
buck stops here. Literally, House Republicans refuse to give the 
spender-in-chief a blank check to pay for his reckless ways.
  If the President even wants to think about moving forward with the 
debt limit increase, he needs to know that Americans want Congress to 
drastically cut spending.
  Across the Nation, people have cut back and stretched their hard-
earned dollars in order to make it through these tough times. The 
government must do the same. We're facing a debt crisis because 
Washington spends too much and wastes too much.
  Raising the debt limit without a deep spending cut amounts to a 
Barack Obama big-government bailout. Enough is enough. Stop the Obama 
bailout now.

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