[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11449]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              TIME FOR WASHINGTON TO LIVE WITHIN ITS MEANS

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, tonight the House finally passed a real 
plan that addresses this Nation's spending crisis.
  I think many American families out there already know that Washington 
has had a spending problem, because they have been living within their 
means for a long time. They have been sitting around the kitchen table 
figuring out how to make do with what they have got. And yet in 
Washington, it seems like liberal leadership over here wants to ignore 
the problem.
  We have passed a plan today in the House with Cut, Cap, and Balance 
that controls spending in Washington and puts us on a path to a 
balanced budget.
  And what's the President's plan? We have still yet to hear his plan. 
All we hear are speeches and class warfare where the President tries to 
pit one group of Americans against another, as if corporate jet owners 
and millionaires and billionaires can solve the problem. If he 
confiscated every single dollar they have, it wouldn't address the 
problem.
  Now it is time to get real. If the President wants to get serious 
about addressing the spending problems in this Nation, it is time for 
him to confront what Cut, Cap, and Balance really does, and that is to 
finally tell Washington it is time to start living within your means, 
just like families across this country have been doing for years.

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