House Proceeding 07-22-09 on Jul 22nd, 2009 :: 1:30:45 to 1:33:40
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Baron Hill: the gentleman from south carolina. mr. spratt: i yield three minutes to the the gentleman from indiana, mr. hill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. hill: thank you, mr. speaker and i thank the gentleman from south carolina, where i went to school, for yielding this time on pay-go. this is a proud day, especially

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Speech By: Baron Hill

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Baron Hill: for people like myself who is a member of the blue dog coalition, who has this issue of pay-go as its signature issue. finally after years of working towards compromise, we finally have this day before us where we will be voting on statutory pay-go. there's a lot of people to

1:31:25 to 1:31:45( Edit History Discussion )

Baron Hill: thank, but one person i would like to thank is former congressman charlie stenholm, who i hope is listening today. he was a member of the blue dog coalition and worked day in and day out to make sure that this day has arrived. charlie, if you are listening out ther i'm sure that you have a big smile on your face right now.

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Baron Hill: i want to thank the speaker and the majority leader and entire leadership in the democratic party in embracing the concept of pay-go as well. and i would like to thank the president of the united states who has also embraced the concept of pay-go. pay-go as has been mentioned is not a complete solution, but it worked one time.

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Baron Hill: what we're voting on today was in place during the 1990's. and you call it was those pay-go rules that were in place that got us to a point where we actually had surpluses for the first time in over 40 years. so it works. it has a history of working. and so to the detractors who say

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Baron Hill: this is not the solution, it was the solution back in the 1990's and has a history of working. if it worked then, it can work now. . we had discretionary spending caps. so pay-go is just a start. we must finish the job. i have a granddaughter that's a

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Baron Hill: little over 30 days old, and i don't want to be passing on this debt that we've accumulated here recently and in the last 10 years to her. when this decade began, we had a sour economy, and we've had to do some unusual things in order to try to revive this economy. it's caused spending to go

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Baron Hill: but i along with the president and members of congress now feel like this is the first step to get us back on track to making sure that we get this spending under control. i've heard from the other side who have a different idea of how pay-go should look like. but as i said before, this pay-go that we have now was in place in the 1990's and it worked.

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Baron Hill: it provided surpluses for us. and it will work in this century as well.