Mike Pence: “President Bush sent to Capitol Hill earlier this year a strong conservative budget that represented a good start down…”

“President Bush sent to Capitol Hill earlier this year a strong conservative budget that represented a good start down the road toward fiscal discipline. And the House Budget Committee, under the skillful leadership of the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle), began a process not so much of writing a Federal budget, as of truly changing the way we spend the people's money. Now, I would agree with my colleague who spoke just before me, that we can do better and we will do better. But this budget that we will adopt today is a good start. And most especially, from our perspective, it is important that we pass this budget because it includes not only new restraints, actual cuts in nondefense spending, actual savings in entitlements, but it gives Members of Congress the power to put our fiscal house in order by bringing with it today the new protection known as ``point-of-order protection,'' that any Member of Congress can now go to the floor for major spending bills and raise a procedural point to enforce the budget that we are adopting today. This budget is a good start, however modest, down the road toward fiscal discipline. And with the power to enforce it we are changing the way we spend the people's money.”