[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 20 (Tuesday, March 1, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 1, 1994]
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                           IF NOT THIS, WHAT?

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, the House will vote on the balanced 
budget amendment to the Constitution in the second week of March; 218 
Members have signed a discharge petition making such a vote a sure 
thing.
  Opponents of fiscal sanity will use a host of scare tactics to derail 
the balanced budget amendment, but I urge my colleagues to not be 
fooled.
  We need a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution. We need to 
get our fiscal house in order. And we need to do it now.
  Abraham Lincoln once said, ``You cannot keep out of trouble, by 
spending more than you earn.''
  Well, the Congress cannot long stay out of serious trouble by piling 
debts into debts.
  I urge my wavering colleagues to consider the options. If not this, 
what? If not now, when?
  Let us pass a balanced budget amendment, and let's do it now.

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