my wife and I have two teenage daughters, and every day we go through the same battle with them. Will you clean your room? Yes, mom, yes, dad, we will clean it tomorrow. Well, tomorrow comes and we ask them about cleaning their room. Oh, yeah, dad, we will do it tomorrow. I have been a Member of this Chamber for 3 years, and during those 3 years I have heard virtually every Member of this Chamber talk about cutting spending, and I have heard about half of them talk about cutting spending tomorrow. There are always a million reasons why we cannot cut spending, but it is time now to do it. I do not know who the author of the old saying was, ``Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today,'' but it certainly speaks well of what we need to do today. Stand up and be counted, put the rhetoric aside, and let us cut spending today.
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Addressing the need for immediate action on cutting government spending.
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