[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5058]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

  (Mr. JORDAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. JORDAN. Mr. Speaker, this week, the President hosted a star-
studded concert at the White House for his friends, featuring the music 
of Otis Redding and others. One of Otis Redding's lines in his 
``(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay'' sums up my thoughts on the 
President's budget: ``Looks like nothing's gonna change. Everything 
remains the same.''
  Just like the Senate, the President's budget raises taxes, increases 
the debt and never, ever, ever balances. The Obama budget has a 
trillion dollars in new taxes on top of the trillion-dollar ObamaCare 
tax and the $600 billion ``fiscal cliff'' tax from earlier this year. 
The Obama budget spends $46 trillion, borrows another $8 trillion, and 
increases the national debt to $25.4 trillion over the next 10 years. 
Then, after all those taxes and all that spending, we still have a 
budget that never, ever, ever balances.
  Mr. President, we can't borrow forever. We can't keep spending more 
than we take in. These problems are staring us right in the face, but 
the big spenders in Washington are just sittin' on the dock of the bay, 
wasting time.

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