James Rogan: “last year I had the privilege of campaigning for the U.S. Congress as a Republican from California, and in my district I…”

“last year I had the privilege of campaigning for the U.S. Congress as a Republican from California, and in my district I made no bones in going to groups where I spoke to both Democrats and Republicans and telling them that I intended to come to Congress and work in a bipartisan fashion with the President to balance the budget. A month ago I had the honor of sitting in this Chamber for the first time and seeing a President of the United States deliver in person a State of the Union message. In that message he told us and he told the country that he would submit and we would balance the budget. I believed the President then and I still believe that he intends to work toward that goal. But, Mr. Speaker, as we know, the budget that the President submitted to this Congress does not balance, and that fact has been made clear by the Congressional Budget Office, which is bipartisan. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we passed a resolution calling on the President to again submit a budget to this Congress that is balanced and, Mr. Speaker, as a Republican I pledge to this House and to the country that when the President does take that action, I will work with him and work with my colleagues across the aisle to ensure that we fulfill that obligation to the American people.”