[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11814]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THE DEFICIT

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, last night I had 
a town hall. Obviously I wasn't there; I had to be here. So we did it 
by way of Internet. And it was amazing how the consensus of those who 
were there was a request for those of us to take seriously our 
leadership responsibilities and do something about the fiscal mess we 
are in.
  In answering them, I was thinking about what the President's 
bipartisan deficit commission leaders said about the plan we passed 
here in the House. They called it a serious, honest, straightforward 
approach to addressing our Nation's enormous fiscal challenges. It 
sounds like that's the answer to the questions that were being asked 
last night by our constituents.
  Interestingly enough, there is a poll out, rendering an opinion by 
the American people on the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill that we passed 
here in the House. Over 60 percent of the American people happen to 
think it's a good idea. Perhaps we ought to stop the name calling and 
look at what the American people are telling us to do and get serious, 
as the President's bipartisan deficit commission said, and come up with 
a serious, honest, straightforward approach to addressing our Nation's 
enormous fiscal challenge.

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