[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11310]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        AN UNREALISTIC APPROACH

  (Mr. TIPTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. TIPTON. Madam Speaker, we have a President who likes to talk 
about polling numbers, while the President seems to completely ignore 
one of the most important polling numbers that the American people have 
spoken to, and, that is, asking the Congress of the United States to do 
exactly what Americans around their kitchen tables are doing this 
evening: figuring out a way to be able to balance that budget, to be 
able to fill up that gas tank, to be able to put food on the table. The 
very thing that 49 of our States are doing on a regular basis, 
balancing their budget.
  Today, we have the President of the United States come out and say a 
balanced budget amendment is unrealistic. No, Mr. President, your 
approach is unrealistic. We are on an unsustainable glide path, 
destroying the future for our children and our grandchildren, if we 
fail to get our fiscal house in order. Now is the time. This is our 
opportunity. Cut, caps, and balance. Not cut and run, Mr. President.
  This is our opportunity to set America straight, to be able to get 
our people back to work, and to get America moving again.

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