Mike Collins: “I rise on behalf of Georgians and folks all over our Nation who are sick and tired of the budget games in Washington.…”

“I rise on behalf of Georgians and folks all over our Nation who are sick and tired of the budget games in Washington. Ask almost any American what happens if someone spends substantially more money than they take in, and they'll tell you that that individual will be plagued with debt and face limited economic opportunity. But this commonsense reality seems to evade many of my friends in the other body. As evidenced by the recently proposed budget, this so- called plan increases taxes by $1 trillion, proposes $100 billion in new stimulus spending, and will never balance. This mentality is exactly what got our Nation into this fiscal mess in the first place. However, I must commend my friends for at least finally putting down a budget on paper. It took them 4 years, and their plan certainly doesn't propose any new ideas, but at least they've articulated where they stand. However, this administration remains delinquent in their duty to send a budget to Congress. The administration's budget is more than a month overdue, and news reports indicate it may come in April, if at all. They have complained that the delay is the result of Congressional debate surrounding the fiscal cliff and sequester. Someone should tell this administration that using uncertainty created by their own policies to buck their responsibility to craft a budget is unconscionable.…”