House Proceeding 03-18-09 on Mar 18th, 2009 :: 1:35:25 to 1:37:35
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1:35:21 to 1:35:41( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: american taxpayer. and with that, i'd yield back to my colleague from florida. mr. klein: i thank the gentleman. i think you've summed it up exactly right. and that is, the american people want answers. they want to make sure this doesn't happen again. it's unacceptable for there to be cycles where this happens and you clean up and it happens again.

1:35:25 to 1:37:35( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: Ron Klein

1:35:42 to 1:36:03( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: i mean, this is, you know, a very significant time for everyone. and the challenge is great. and so we are going to have to focus on it and if i can, i'll just spend one last minute refereing the fact that we're now moving into the conversation about our budget for next year. but talking about the kinds of things the american people are looking for, it's transparency and openness when we have a budget.

1:36:04 to 1:36:24( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: and the last mber of years of which this group here has only been here two years but the wars, wh appreciate the work that our military did and all the rest of that, but $100 billion some for the last number of year, not even on the books of the balance sheet of the federal government, every year it's a supplemental budget. supplemental budget is supposed

1:36:25 to 1:36:46( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: to be when you have an emergency. god forbid you have a katrina or something like that that you didn't plan for. the war was ere, it should have been planned for and accounted for. when you talk about a balanced budget and here today, we're fi deficit people. we're deaf he sit hawks. we believe in -- we're deficit hawks. we believe in it. the republicans didn't do it,

1:36:47 to 1:37:07( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: democrats didn't do it in the past but all of us together have got to get it right now and the goin we inherited an unfortunate budget and it's gog to take time to get through this. mr. spratt who works with us, president obama's got a lot of ideas, we're going to put them through the mix here and i think we something, but most importantly, it's an honest, open conversation. the american people are smart

1:37:08 to 1:37:29( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: people. they understand the process of building a budget. they do it for themselves every day. and i look forward to the opportunity of working with republicans, or maybe differences of opinions in priorities. i happen to believe that education and health care and energy, making this country energy independent is a very forward-thinking way of addressing the next generation

1:37:30 to 1:37:35( Edit History Discussion )

Ron Klein: of where we need to be but we'll get through that process but the point of it is an honest, open process where the american people can understand