[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 15271]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




          ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY IN SPENDING PROCESS

  (Mrs. BLACKBURN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Mr. Speaker, you know, words have meaning, and I find 
it so interesting as I come to the floor this morning that I continue 
to hear my colleagues talk about a clean CR. Well, for my colleagues 
and for my constituents, I want to explain what this means.
  They want to say no attachments, no further accountabilities, no 
spending reductions, just give us the money. And I would remind them 
the levels that we're spending at are due to sequestration. It's the 
law. It's the law. That's where it's at. By implication, they are 
saying, what you all want is unclean or evil or dirty.
  What we are for, Mr. Speaker, is an accountable, transparent CR, an 
accountable, transparent process--transparent and fair to hardworking 
taxpayers, fair to future generations, like my grandsons, my nieces, 
great-nieces and nephews, who are going to have to pay the bill.
  Let's have an accountable spending process.

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