It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Rokita), a member of the Budget Committee and a leader on this issue.

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. DesJarlais), a member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Mr. DesJARLAIS. I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, no one can deny that our Nation's on an…

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Posey), a member of the Financial Services Committee and, as a realtor, may want to comment on some of the remarks made here today regarding the ability of people to…

It is my pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Hultgren), a member of the Agriculture Committee.

It is now my honor to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Platts), chairman of the Government Organization Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Latta), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

At this time it is my pleasure to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

At this time I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Pearce), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

At this time it is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Johnson), a member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and a great supporter of the balanced budget amendment.

It is now my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from Illinois, who is the chief deputy whip and a member of the Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Roskam.

I am delighted to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Barton), the former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. (Mr. BARTON of Texas asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

At this time it is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), the chairman of the Agriculture, Energy and Trade Subcommittee of the Small Business Committee.

Noting that the Republicans on the supercommittee have put a proposal on the table and the Democrats have not, I now yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Manzullo), a member of the Financial Services Committee.

I will yield to the gentleman from Maryland in just a minute. This chart show that, in 2004, we had a $400 billion deficit. It was the highest deficit in American history, and it was part of the reason we lost our majority later on. Then…

Absolutely there's a goal of doing that, and it is the goal of being able to generate a growing economy that results from living within your means and then using those means to pay for what our society needs.

If you don't have the resources to pay for what you need because you've spent it on a lot of other things, you're not going to have the infrastructure. {time} 1300

Well, I just pointed out that the rich pay far, far, far more in taxes than other people do, and they should. But this balanced budget amendment doesn't make any distinction between how you balance it, whether it's by increasing revenues…

If you don't balance the budget and you continue to pile up enormous debt, women, children, minorities, all will suffer in the future because our economy will shrink, just like Greece's economy is shrinking right now because they can't…

The balanced budget amendment is fair to all because all it simply says is that for all time, the people of this country want their government to live within their means, not just right now, but in the future as well. Right now, we're not…

I don't know. I'm a Boston Red Sox fan. We finally got ours, but we have a ways to go. I reserve the balance of my time.

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds to say that Social Security and Medicare are endangered. And do you know why they're endangered? Because we have a $15 trillion debt. And in all of those years that we didn't balance the budget, what…

I yield myself an additional 30 seconds. As to the gentleman's complaint that this is all because we haven't taxed the rich, my goodness, in the last Congress, under the control of your party, you extended all of those tax cuts for…

I thank the gentleman. In response to the gentleman from New York, I just want to point out a few facts: first of all, in the last 50 years, the budget has been balanced six times. Democrats have controlled the House of Representatives 37…

I thank the gentleman. I need to comment on the revisionist history that we are hearing. Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that tough votes are made when Congresses make the decision to balance the budget. That decision wasn't made in…

He calls a ribbon cutting to show up and vote for budgets that are actually balanced. The gentleman from Virginia, my good friend, voted against all four--all four--of the budgets that were balanced in the 1990s and leading up to 2001.