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Thank you, Madam Speaker. These congressional Democrats just aren't listening.

After Massachusetts, voters sent a signal on behalf of this country: no more spending, we are too deep in debt but here we go again.

And when they sent the signal that governments should be open and people ought to have a say today, they snuck into this bill an increase in the debt limit to make sure there wouldn’t be an embarrassing up or down vote on this bill the way the public demands it to be.

When they were in charge it s a different story.  As the Majority Leader, highly respected Majority Leader Mr. Steny Hoyer said, "raising the debt limit is immoral."  This policy of borrow and spend is not only irresponsible, it's immoral and it must stop. He was exactly right.

When our Speaker, again, highly respected Speaker, took that gavel three years ago, the debt limit in America was $29,000 for every man, woman and child. Today, just three years later its $45,000 for each one of you and it's going up and up and up each year.

I'll tell you when they say no, no, republicans and democrats share the blame; democrats have incurred twice as much of that debt to date and its going to skyrocket under their control.

And what's even more frustrating is with the new president's budget, that deficit is going to triple over future years.

I'll finish with this. Pay-go is to fiscal responsibility as what ethics is to the former governor of Illinois, Mr. Blagojevich.

Pay-go, since it's been put in place three years ago, our deficits have increased ten fold.

I urge defeat of this bill.