House Proceeding 04-06-06 on Apr 6th, 2006 :: 1:18:48 to 1:23:40
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thank you, 345eur78. -- thank you, mr. chairman. the chairman: the gentleman's time has expired. it is now in order to conduct general debate on the congressional budget. the gentleman from

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Kenny C. Hulshof: missouri mr. hulshof, and the gentleman from south carolina, mr. spratt, each will control 90 minutes. the gentleman from missouri. mr. hulshof: i appreciate it, mr. chairman and i yield myself

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Speech By: Kenny C. Hulshof

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Kenny C. Hulshof: such time as i may consume. the chairman: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as you may consume. mr. hulshof: today is a great day, a great day of opportunity for this house and really for

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Kenny C. Hulshof: the american people. i want to echo what was said during the previous debate, particularly from my good friend and colleague, mr. mccotter, from michigan. i want to start by actually announcing a truism

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Kenny C. Hulshof: that certainly all of us, republicans, democrats, independents, liberals, and conservatives can believe in that, at least i believe it to be a truism. it would simply be summed up in two statements.

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Kenny C. Hulshof: first of all, wealth and prosperity and economic opportunity do not come from government programs or increased federal spending. isn't that at least something we can begin to agree upon? and the

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Kenny C. Hulshof: second corollary that, again, i think is axiomatic, that again, surely all of us can agree with, is secondly the federal government cannot tax its way into prosperity. and so when you consider where

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Kenny C. Hulshof: we are, as we try to make these very difficult, tough budget choices, i believe that the budget we have on the floor today should deserve bipartisan support. i don't expect it, but it should.

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Kenny C. Hulshof: this fiscal year, 2007 budget, continues and furthers our plans to strengthen our nation's most critical programs, it reforms the federal government, it spends the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

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Kenny C. Hulshof: again, i'm certain that as we, over the next couple of weeks, go to visit with our constituents, those folks that are actually paying the bills, they simply want to be ensured that they're

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Kenny C. Hulshof: getting a dollar's worth of value out of every dollar that they send to the nation's capital. thising budget does -- this budget does that. in fact, it does it by focusing on a number of priorities.

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Kenny C. Hulshof: we build upon our nation's greatest strengths. we continue our successful pro-growth policies to ensure that our economy that has been doing well, job creation that has been increasing remains

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Kenny C. Hulshof: strong, and that we continue that vibrant economy. we also accommodate the administration's request to provide whatever is needed in the way of resources to support our troops, again, something

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Kenny C. Hulshof: that i think both sides of the aisle will agree with. we have to continue to keep our nation's defense and security the strongest in the world, especially at this very critical time, but we'll

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Kenny C. Hulshof: also continue our efforts at controlling spending across the board. we want to restrain the nonsecurity discretionary spending programs. we want to build on our progress to reform and find

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Kenny C. Hulshof: savingds in some of these -- savings in some of these mandatory programs that are on autopilot, if you will. and in addition to furthering those reforms to improve our federal government programs,

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Kenny C. Hulshof: it's time again to begin to reform the budget process itself to better reflect and address how federal government dollars are actually spent. you know, when we had our interesting markup

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Kenny C. Hulshof: last week in the budget committee, and i suspect as we heard that night again the loyal opposition is likely to provide a somewhat schizophrenic argument. on the one hand, they're going to decry

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Kenny C. Hulshof: the fact that this budget does nothing as far as the federal deficit and adds to the federal debt. in other words, they're saying in this budget, we spend too much. and probably then in the second

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Kenny C. Hulshof: sentence they'll say, and it doesn't invest enough in certain programs. so in other words, our friends across the aisle will talk about that the budget spends too much and then it doesn't

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Kenny C. Hulshof: spend enough. certainly, i would say that covers all the bases. we think this is a responsible budget. it focuses on our priorities, our strengths. it keeps us on a pro-growth agenda to keep this

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Kenny C. Hulshof: economy going, because as we realized back during the days of the 1990's, with a democratic president and a republican-led congress, we were able to make some significant progress, but

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Kenny C. Hulshof: it wasn't just congress. it was those hard-working men and women across the country, the laborers, the famplers, the manufacturers, the -- farmers, the manufacturers, the lumber yard dealers, the

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Kenny C. Hulshof: tool and die makers, those in the service industry, the ones that punch the clock every day, those that play by the rules, pay their taxes and certainly want the best out of government

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Kenny C. Hulshof: that they deserve, we think that budget accomplishes that. and i urge its support. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the chairman: the gentleman from south carolina. mr. spratt: mr.

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John M. Jr.Spratt: chairman, in describing the difference between republicans and democrats, between them and us, when it comes to the budget resolution for 2007, let me go straight to the bottom line -- we've got

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Speech By: John M. Jr.Spratt