[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8674]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   GET RUNAWAY SPENDING UNDER CONTROL

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Madam Speaker, Americans awoke this morning to the 
heartbreaking news that unemployment has increased to 9.1 percent. The 
U.S. economy added only 55,000 jobs in the last month. The American 
people are understandably concerned. But the numbers don't tell the 
tale. Beneath those numbers are literally millions of American families 
who meet this morning's headlines with heartbreak and heartache because 
the opportunities just aren't there.
  The truth is more government, more spending, more regulation, and 
more taxes of the recent past are stifling our recovery. But nothing is 
stifling our recovery more than runaway spending in Washington, D.C.
  Even as we speak today, Congress and this administration are locked 
in a debate over increasing the Nation's credit card, increasing the 
debt ceiling. And let me say from my heart, some people don't see the 
connection between the debate over debt and red ink and the debate over 
jobs, but they are related.
  If we will take the decisive step to put our fiscal house in order, 
we will restore confidence in capital markets, and businesses and 
individuals will invest in ways that will put Americans back to work. 
There should be no debt ceiling increase without real and meaningful 
cuts in the way we spend the people's money in the short term and the 
long term. Get spending under control in Washington, D.C., and we will 
get this economy moving again.

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