[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15348-15349]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       WE NEED A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, in the last few days, this House has 
actually come together on two different measures here that would seek 
to ease a lot of the pain from the government slowdown. The sad thing 
is we can agree on everything the Republicans have been trying to pass 
out of here. The only thing we don't really agree on is what we are 
going to do with that portion of ObamaCare. We have even moved towards 
you in that we are going to limit it to simply giving the rest of the 
American people a 1-year delay in the mandate as the President has 
called for Big Business and has been given waivers to certain 
individuals.
  We can agree on this. We can get this thing done on what we agree on 
right away. It is imperative what we do, because we've got three things 
going on that the American people don't like: they don't like this 
government slowdown; they don't like what they are seeing with 
ObamaCare; and they don't like the impending things we are going to 
have to do with the debt ceiling. All these things work together--the 
cost of ObamaCare, the government regulatory system that is killing 
jobs, and the inability for us to get things done around here.

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  The debt ceiling is a conversation we are going to hear a lot about 
in the very near future. If we are not doing the things to work on a 
truly balanced budget, then there is no reason the debt ceiling doesn't 
keep going up year after year after year.
  We need to balance our budget, folks. We need to get the job done for 
fiscal responsibility. I am not seeing that plan come from the White 
House or from the Senate.

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