[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 4127]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         THE BUDGET RESOLUTION

  (Mr. POLIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POLIS. Mr. Speaker, households across America have budgets. 
People sit around the kitchen table trying to make the hard choices, 
figuring out should they send their kid to summer camp, can they afford 
to go out to dinner more often, can they afford a family trip.
  Businesses have budgets. I was in the private sector before I came 
here, and we had to have those tough discussions and discuss where we 
were going to reinvest and where we were going to cut.
  But, apparently, for the Republicans, they say that our country 
shouldn't have a budget. The time is running short in which the 
Republicans can present and pass a budget for the United States of 
America.
  Shouldn't America have a budget just as it has had in the past, just 
as families across our country have, and just as businesses have?
  What is it that they are trying to hide? Can they not make the 
numbers match without privatizing Social Security and Medicare? Are 
they trying to hide huge tax increases for the middle class?
  We will never know unless the public pressure is so great that the 
Republicans feel that they have to present a responsible budget before 
our body. I hope we see it soon.

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