Amador County – California Congressman Dan Lungren issued a statement Friday saying the federal government shut-down was averted, and “now the real budget discussion begins.”
Lungren (R-District 3), Chairman of the Committee on House Administration said: “I am pleased that Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid have reached an agreement to keep the government running.” He said the “cuts are historic” and “represent the largest year-to-year spending cut since World War II.”
He released a summary of the “bipartisan agreement on spending cuts to support American job creation,” saying it was the “largest spending cut in American history in terms of dollars,” and will immediately cut $38.5 billion in federal spending “just months after President Obama asked Congress for a spending freeze that would mean zero cuts.”
Lungren said the agreement would make hundreds of billions of dollars in spending cuts over the next decade, and officially end the “stimulus spending binge,” which former Fed chief “Alan Greenspan and other economists say hurt job creation in America by crowding out private investment.” Lungren said the agreement set the stage for trillions more in spending cuts.
He said the “agreement reached with Senate Democrats guarantees a Senate debate and vote on legislation that would repeal President Obama’s government takeover of health care in its entirety.”
It also guarantees a Senate vote and debate on de-funding Planned Parenthood, and bans taxpayer funding of abortion in the District of Columbia. The agreement also denies additional funding to the IRS, and sets mandatory audits of “new job-crushing bureaucracy.”
Lungren said: “It is time that all parties get serious about cutting spending and I applaud Speaker Boehner for standing firm on this issue. Now is the time to have an open and honest debate about the course of our fiscal future.”
He said “House Republicans will now advance our fight from saving billions of dollars to saving trillions of dollars as we turn our focus in earnest to Chairman Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’ budget.”
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