Vote Yes On The Spending Control Act

Vote Yes On The Spending Control Act -- (House of Representatives - June 23, 2004)

(Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

Mr. MARIO DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, for years, the Democrats have offered a simple approach to the American economy: Increased taxes on the hard working American people. For starters, we voted down three proposals by the Democrats during the debate on the budget. Each would have raised taxes by over its $00 billion minimum to the American people.

Last year Republicans rejected Democrats' alternatives to major legislation that would have added almost $1 trillion to the deficit, Mr. Speaker. Now I understand that they may be proposing a resolution to the floor calling for billions and billions of dollars of, again, increased taxes to the hard working American people.

I hope, and this week we should have a chance, to reign in spending by voting in favor of the Spending Control Act and some amendments to that Act.

As a member of the Committee on the Budget, Mr. Speaker, I have heard endless rhetoric by our friends the Democrats about the deficit, but at the end of the day, all they propose is more spending and more taxes. If they are serious, Mr. Speaker, about reducing the deficit, then they will join us voting yes on the Spending Control Act.

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