[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5072-5073]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               THE BUDGET

  (Mr. WOODALL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Speaker, I come to the House floor today fresh from 
a Budget Committee hearing. We had the OMB Director presenting the 
President's budget today.
  I know so many folks have said, I thought the budget was required by 
law to be here the first week of February. That's true. Better late 
than never continues to be true, as well. But as we listened to the 
details of the budget, Mr. Speaker, what we heard was that the 
President is proposing to increase spending, increase taxes, and 
increase the debt.
  Mr. Speaker, there are thousands of pages to this budget. I hope 
we'll find some things that we can agree on. But I know that the 
American people agree with Republicans in this House when we say taxes 
are already too high, spending is already too high, and the debt is 
already too high.
  The President's budget never, ever pays one penny of our Federal 
debt. It's wrong. We can do better. This House must come together and 
lead that charge.

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