WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Dan Lungren issued a statement Tuesday supporting GOP’s “Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal” for the fiscal year 2013 budget.

Lungren said: “Facing a fiscal nightmare, we must chart a new course to deal with our exploding debt. (Tuesday’s) budget proposal from Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) addresses reality head on and charts a new course for the fiscal future of this country.”

Lungren said: “You can have your own opinion about this proposal but the numbers do not lie. Our debt exceeds the size of our economy – $15 trillion dollars – and we have 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day.”

He said that “recipe of sky-rocketing debt and large numbers of retirees charts a path that is unsustainable. If we do nothing, the safety nets that so many Americans enjoy today will simply not be there tomorrow.”

Lungren said: “I support Chairman Ryan’s pro-growth tax reform that gets rid of loopholes, broadens the base and lowers the rates for everyone. His Medicare reforms are bipartisan in nature and are a good starting point for discussion.”

He said Ryan “draws his ideas from the Clinton administration’s bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare and plans from Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon).” Lungren said: “Is this plan perfect? No plan is perfect but it is a solid plan that deals with very serious issues facing our country.”

Their “colleagues in the Senate have not proposed a budget or set their priorities in over three years.” Lungren said: “We – as Members of Congress – have an obligation to our constituents and the American people to be honest about our current state of affairs and come up with solutions that will remedy those problems that face us.”

He commended “Ryan and members of the Budget Committee for their hard work, courage, and honesty.”

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