On the recordJuly 20, 2011
I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina for yielding. I am Lynn Jenkins from the Second Congressional District of Kansas, a proud Republican woman, a mother of two, and a CPA with nearly 20 years of experience helping small businesses, major corporations, and American families budget and return to solvency. You see a family up there in the picture. I have spent nearly two decades working with families across the dinner table to help them chart their way back to prosperity and fiscal responsibility, and I can tell you that if you want to be serious about balancing your budget and returning to solvency, you have to look at both sides of the ledger; you have to look at what you're taking in and what you're spending, and you have to look at your assets and your liabilities. When it comes to spending and liabilities, it seems that in this town there is some consensus that Washington does indeed have a spending problem. The time to rein in this out-of-control wasteful Washington spending and debt is long overdue. That is why the House has passed a responsible, fact-based budget that will curb Federal spending by more than $6 trillion over the next 10 years, and why just yesterday we passed a measure to again cut spending by trillions of dollars and cap any future spending as part of a deal to grant the President his request to raise the debt ceiling.…
