Mike Pence: “With record deficits and national debt, today the House of Representatives will take on one of our most important duties…”

“With record deficits and national debt, today the House of Representatives will take on one of our most important duties every year. We will consider a budget resolution. Thanks to the leadership of Speaker Dennis Hastert, we will be bringing a budget to the floor that will reaffirm our commitment to fiscal discipline and reform. By holding the line on the President's number on domestic spending and by including a rainy day fund for the first time ever, Republicans will say to millions of Americans, troubled by a sea of red ink, we hear you and this Republican Congress is ready to make the hard choices to put our fiscal house in order. I urge all of my colleagues to stand together today, Republicans and even Democrats, to support this budget resolution. ____________________”