[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 4935]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT SPENDING

  (Mr. LATHAM asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, this morning was a remarkable time. The 
President, even though it's 65 days late, came out with a budget today. 
And it is interesting to note that it is about $600 billion of new 
taxes, after we've just had a $620 billion tax increase on this 
economy, with the health care bill, about another $1.2 trillion of new 
taxes and fees, and his budget proposal increases the size of 
government 50 percent over the next 10 years.
  Mr. Speaker, I've been home for the last couple of weeks talking to 
constituents, and what they tell me is the fact that they want a 
balanced budget. The President's budget never gets to balance. Our 
budget does. They want a balanced budget. They want us to get control 
of spending in Washington because they know how it affects themselves, 
their families, and the future of this country.
  The spending coupled with all of the new regulations, the health care 
mandates coming down on small businesses, they are stopping job growth. 
We have got to get some common sense in this House.

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