[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 261]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  CONSEQUENCES OF NOT HAVING A BUDGET

  (Mr. GOHMERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, there are consequences of not having a 
budget. One of them is you don't make proper plans. How else can you 
explain the Obama administration going so long and crying so loudly, 
Gee, we can't find $10 billion to cut, much less $100 billion? We 
certainly aren't going to cut a trillion even though we increase 
spending by a trillion.
  And we find out last week from the Obama OMB that there is $687 
billion sitting in accounts that's been appropriated. It's unobligated. 
It's unspent, sitting there, and they're still demanding more and more 
money.
  America can't afford it. It's time to claw back the money before it's 
spent on other Solyndras and to give us a budget at the other end of 
the building.

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