[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12464]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            CUT, CAP, AND BALANCE IS THE BEST FOR THE NATION

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, when the President is 
correct, we should thank him, such as keeping open the Guantanamo Bay 
detention facility despite his promise to close it. And in the recent 
past, as Senator in 2006, the President was correct:
  ``The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt 
limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. 
Government can't pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on 
ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our 
government's reckless fiscal policies.''
  House Republicans, with the positive leadership of Speaker John 
Boehner, last week passed the best solution to the debt ceiling: the 
Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011. The liberals' cowardly response in 
the Senate was to table it and hide their Members from an open vote. It 
is not too late for liberals to vote and join conservatives for a 
solution which creates jobs and stops the President, who is stuck on 
his failed policies of tax increases, destroying jobs.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, and we will never forget 
September the 11th in the global war on terrorism.

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