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Making Life Work for American Families  Floor Speech  Location:
Washington, DC   Mr. GRIFFIN of Arkansas. I appreciate that
transition. Thank you very much.  What I'm concerned about is
because we haven't gotten our fiscal house in order, we are not
able to invest in a lot of things, like medical research and
roads and education, the way we need to in order to be prepared
for the future. I've got a 3-year-old and a 5-year-old, and I
want their America to be as good as the one that I grew up in.
To do that, we have to invest in these things.  So I call this
the ``PAC-MAN problem'' because nearly two-thirds of our Federal
budget is on autopilot. It's mandatory spending. Medicare,
Medicaid, Social Security, and interest make up that mandatory
spending; and this is money that's basically spent without
congressional approval because it's written into the law. Unless
we save and strengthen those programs represented by the yellow
here, then they're going t