Burgess Votes For Responsible Budget
Opposes bloated Democrat plan that taxes, spends and borrows too much

Washington, DC, Apr 2, 2009

Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D. (TX-26), a member of the Joint Economic Committee, voted for the responsible and fiscally conservative Republican Study Committee budget proposal earlier today. Burgess also voted against the Democrats’ budget plan that will increase the national deficit to unprecedented levels, raise taxes and borrow trillions of dollars that future generations will be forced to pay.

“Spending huge amounts of money we don’t have during a depression did not work in the 1930s and I certainly don’t intend to support that today. We cannot aimlessly spend our way back to economic prosperity, as proposed by President Obama and Democrat leaders in Congress with their budget. In fact, many predict it may prolong the recession or worse, prevent complete economic recovery and new growth,â€