[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8] [House] [Pages 10571-10572] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]ADOPT A BUDGET, AND THEN KEEP IT (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Mr. Speaker, we are setting new records here in this Congress and in this government. We are now approaching, if we haven't already leaped over it, the $14 trillion mark for the national debt. Fourteen trillion dollars. It doesn't just kind of trip off your tongue. It's a huge number. It's a number that is difficult to contemplate. And yet we sit [[Page 10572]] here, working very diligently on suspension calendar bills, doing virtually nothing about the national debt except adding to it day after day after day. If you were to have a household income, and you were trying to determine what to do with your debt, it seems to me the first thing you would do is you would adopt a budget. You would adopt a budget to try and figure out your income, your expenses, how much debt you could have. But we have been informed by the majority that we're not even going to start with that this year. We are going to forget about even coming up with a budget, I guess because we're so embarrassed about the numbers that would be in there. Let's at least do what families do: adopt a budget and then keep it. ____________________