[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 12532-12533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            REAL SOLUTIONS TO THIS DEBT AND SPENDING CRISIS

  (Mr. SCALISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCALISE. Mr. Speaker, after yesterday's action here on the House 
floor, we have sent not one, but two real solutions to this debt and 
spending crisis over to the Senate.
  The Senate has yet to take action on anything. The President refuses 
to even submit a plan to solve this problem. All we hear from the 
President are these divisive class warfare speeches. A speech is not a 
solution to the problem, especially when you hear of all this 
foolishness about corporate jet owners and millionaires and 
billionaires. If the President got his way, if the President 
confiscated every dollar from corporate jet owners and millionaires and 
billionaires, he himself knows that wouldn't solve the problem.
  And yet what you have is a spending problem in Washington. You don't 
solve a spending problem by sending even more spending to Washington so 
that they can blow even more money. What we actually need to do is not 
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balanced approach, we need a balanced budget amendment to our 
Constitution, so that you can finally invoke accountability in 
Washington to solve the spending problem.
  Job-killing taxes, more tax increases that only gives Washington more 
money to spend. Instead of facing the problem, we have got to stop 
ignoring the problem. The President needs to get his head out of the 
sand and address the real spending crisis in Washington.

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