[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 10 (Monday, February 7, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 7, 1994]
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                           PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, here it is--the President's budget submitted 
today to the Congress.
  The budget comes at a time of record deficit reduction, the first 3-
year consecutive drop in the budget deficit since Harry Truman. But for 
those Members who doubted there would be cuts back in the fall, let me 
tell them that there is pain in the budget for our country and for my 
State of West Virginia. The LIHEAP Program, low income energy 
assistance, after the cruelest winter in memory, would be cut 50 
percent. The Appalachian Regional Commission would be cut 25 percent. 
The Antidrug Burn Program would be eliminated. The Office of Surface 
Mine, Rural Mine Land Abandonment Program would be eliminated. 
Transportation projects would be endangered.
  As a Member of the Committee on the Budget, I can tell the Members 
that we will go over this carefully, and I urge every Member to look at 
this carefully.
  Mr. Speaker, deficit reduction is neither easy nor pleasant.

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