[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15619]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        NEW ENTITLEMENT SPENDING

  (Mr. CRAWFORD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CRAWFORD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today just to ask this simple 
question to my colleagues here in the House and to our counterparts in 
the Senate, and that is simply this: Does it make sense for us to speed 
ahead with $1.3 trillion in new entitlement spending when our country 
is in the middle of a debt crisis and Medicare and Social Security are 
on the brink of bankruptcy?
  If the answer is ``yes,'' then you can go home and explain that to 
your constituents. If the answer is ``no,'' maybe we could explain why 
we are doing it.

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