[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 14 (Friday, February 11, 1994)]
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                     COMMENT ON THE FEDERAL BUDGET

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, I want to commend the President on the work 
that he has done in his budget for fiscal year 1995. There are some 
general comments I would like to make. Among them is the fact that if 
we continue on the deficit reduction path which was set beginning in 
1990, but particularly in the summer of 1993, when we passed the 
President's first budget, we will have something like $200 billion left 
from money being spent over this period of the next 5 years because of 
the budget agreement.
  There are themes woven through the budget. Among the themes is that 
we will now have a more efficient government, more cost effective 
management of this giant thing called the Federal Government. We will 
pay for more Federal services than we have in the past. There will be a 
better and a more effective way of delivering services to the people.
  Another thing, Mr. Speaker, is the investment. We are investing in 
health and welfare, we are investing in the education and job training 
of our people, we are investing in fighting crime in an effective way.
  Each one of us, Mr. Speaker, has differences with the President on 
specific items in the budget. Coming from an urban area of Louisville, 
I hope to support efforts to makes some modifying changes in his budget 
but overall, Mr. Speaker, I think the President has done an excellent 
job of pointing this country on a glide path toward lower inflation, 
lower deficits, and greater production.

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