[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Pages 10662-10663]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 TIME TO GET OUR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER

  (Mrs. MILLER of Michigan asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, for the last 2\1/2\ years, 
President Obama and his allies in Congress here have been on a spending 
spree which has led to annual deficits of $1.4 trillion and a national 
debt that now exceeds $14 trillion.
  The Republicans have drawn a line in the sand and said enough. We've 
changed the culture here in Washington from how much more are we going 
to spend to how much are we going to cut. We've passed a responsible 
budget which focuses on getting economic growth going and on new jobs, 
a budget that would put us on the path to prosperity and also to fiscal 
sanity. And today's anemic job report with unemployment rising again 
now to 9.2 percent shows that we have so much more to do. And the idea 
of job-killing tax increases is absolutely a nonstarter.
  I'm proud that our Republican negotiators that have been in the 
negotiations with the President and the Democratic leadership are 
standing strong over increasing the debt limit with a strong focus on 
jobs. And I hope that

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the President and the Democrats will finally join us in getting our 
fiscal house in order. And for the sake of the American people, Mr. 
Speaker, let's get the job done.

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