Pelosi to Bush: 'The Days of the Fiscally Irresponsible Rubber Stamp Republican Congress Are Over'

'The President fails to grasp a basic tenet of fiscal responsibility--you must pay for what you spend.   The President would rather spend another $200 billion in Iraq and leave our children to pick up the tab than make fiscally sound investments in veterans' health care, cancer research and health care for 10 million children.

'Congress is moving America in a New Direction that provides health care to 10 million children, which is fully paid for, and reinvests in key domestic priorities as part of a balanced budget that restores pay-as-you-go discipline and rejects new deficit spending.

'This Congress' record on fiscal discipline and meeting our national priorities sends the President this message: the days of the fiscally irresponsible Rubber Stamp Republican Congress are over.'