[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15621]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     GET OUR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER

  (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, it is so interesting to hear my 
colleagues talk about how they want a clean CR. Just so that everyone 
realizes, Mr. Speaker, what they are saying is give us the money--no 
strings attached, no accountability.
  What we continue to say to our colleagues is we want an accountable 
CR--accountable to the U.S. taxpayer, who is footing the bill for this 
government. It is not Federal money that we appropriate or that we 
spend. It is taxpayer money coming out of the pockets of hardworking 
men and women.
  As I read emails from my district in Tennessee, what I hear 
repeatedly is, number one, We cannot afford the $17 trillion in debt. 
It really scares us. It frightens us for the future of our children and 
grandchildren.
  We cannot continue to monetize $75 billion worth of debt each month. 
We have to get our fiscal house in order. That is what we seek to do.

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