[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4012]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           DEMOCRATIC BUDGETS

  (Mr. MULVANEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. MULVANEY. Mr. Speaker, in a few minutes, we are going to start 
taking up debate on several budgets. I want to point out one important 
consistent thing about the budgets that my esteemed colleagues will be 
offering. Not a single one of them ever balances. I will say that 
again, Mr. Speaker: not a single Democrat budget that is being offered 
will ever balance.
  If we do not have surpluses, we cannot pay down the debt. We will 
never be able to pay down the debt until we have surpluses. If you 
offer a budget that never offers any surpluses, there is never any way 
to repay the debt.
  And I respectfully suggest that if I come to you and ask you to lend 
me money and I have the intention of giving it back to you, that that 
is truly debt. But if I come to you and ask you to give me money and I 
have no intention of ever giving it back to you, that is theft. That is 
exactly what the opponents' budgets will offer us today. There is no 
way to ever repay any of this debt. It is wrong, and the American 
public deserve better.

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