[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 11 (Tuesday, February 8, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E]
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[Congressional Record: February 8, 1994]
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                    IN HONOR OF GEORGE NEVILLE SMITH

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                            HON. NICK SMITH

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 8, 1994

  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I react to the President's budget 
proposal with renewed vigor, because of a special incident that 
happened last week. Our son Brad and his wife Diane gave birth to our 
fourth grandchild. George Neville Smith, born February 2, 1994, in 
Houston, TX, is going to have a tough time paying back all of this 
money we are borrowing.
  Spending under the Clinton budget increases to $1.52 trillion in 
fiscal year 1995, an increase of $34 billion over fiscal year 1994. 
When George is 5 years old, spending will be $1.8 trillion, or $346 
billion higher.
  In the previous 5 years before George Neville Smith was born, the 
national debt increased $1.4 trillion--going from $3.2 trillion to $4.6 
trillion. This budget drives us into debt even faster, reaching $6.3 
trillion of debt by fiscal year 1999. This budget continues the trend 
that was started last year of deficit spending, billions more in debt, 
and a bigger, more intrusive Government.
  My wife Bonnie and I join our other grandchildren, Nicholas, Emily, 
and Clair as well as George's other grandparents, Neville and Jennifer 
Monteith from Orillia, ON, in welcoming George to this world.
  I would conclude by asking all parents and grandparents that are 
Members of Congress to work with me to minimize the extent to which we 
mortgage our children's future by making their generation pay for our 
undisciplined deficit spending.

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