[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 18569]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            A SMALL FINGER IN A DIKE WITH HUNDREDS OF HOLES

  (Mr. ISSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ISSA. I wish I could say that this was a proud moment, a moment 
in which we started the year off right, in which the 1st of January was 
the first of a great many good things. It isn't. We're kicking the can 
down the road. Worse than that, when faced with a mountain of debt that 
we were heading for, like an airplane, did we climb over it? No. What 
we're going to do in the present plan is put another nearly trillion 
dollars' worth of debt on the American people.
  Time is running out to change the direction because that trillion 
dollars isn't just a problem for the next generation. It's a problem 
for corporate America, and it's a problem for every American. The 
trillion dollars we spend and waste this year is $1 trillion that we 
will have to bear for the rest of our lives.
  Mr. Speaker, I may vote for what comes on the floor. I certainly will 
vote for a bill, which I'm going to manage in a few minutes, to hold 
down the growth of spending in the government; but I'll tell you, I 
won't do it thinking we've accomplished anything here today other than 
the smallest finger in a dike that, in fact, has hundreds of holes in 
it.

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