[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12532]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      HELP RESOLVE THE DEBT CRISIS

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, for far too long now, previous 
Congresses have treated increases to America's debt ceiling as 
temporary problems to be dealt with later on. Well, it's now later on, 
and we have to deal with this very serious challenge to America's 
fiscal health. House Republicans have now passed two bills that would 
end the debt limit crisis while cutting trillions from the deficit.
  Today the House will vote down the Reid proposal. The Reid proposal 
is full of budget gimmicks that the American people are, quite frankly, 
fed up with. Not only is the Reid plan dead on arrival in the House, 
but it appears to be dead on departure from the Senate. I urge all of 
my colleagues to vote against the Reid plan today because it's time for 
every Member of Congress to join House Republicans in producing not a 
deal but a solution to this debt crisis, one that makes real spending 
cuts, one that establishes real spending controls, one that forces the 
Federal Government to live within its means, and one that doesn't raise 
taxes on American families and job creators.

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