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Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011

Floor Speech

Date: July 19, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Constitution Government Budget and Spending

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Mr. COBLE. Mr. Speaker, many Members of recent sessions of Congress have not been known as practitioners of fiscal discipline.

Balanced budget amendment philosophy has well served thousands of governmental entities and hundreds of thousands of households. Now is the time for the Congress to embrace a balanced budget amendment which will then set us upon a course where fiscal discipline is not merely an option but a necessity. Only then, Mr. Speaker, will the Congress balance its own budget.

I urge support of this worthwhile and commonsense piece of legislation and would like to see it enacted, although that probably will not be the conclusion.

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