[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 20 (Tuesday, March 1, 1994)]
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              CONGRESS CONSIDERS BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Mr. EWING asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute, and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EWING. Mr. Speaker, repetition, I hope, will have its way and 
that we will in fact come to a balanced budget in this Congress. In the 
last 33 years, in all but 1 year, we have had a deficit in our Federal 
budget.
  Mr. Speaker, I do not normally suggest that we amend our 
Constitution, but it is simply time to adopt a balanced budget 
amendment. It is time that the Congress kicked the addictive habit of 
deficit spending and do what every hard-working American family has to 
do--limits expenditures to the amount of its income. It is finally time 
to put this great Nation of ours back in the black, if not for us, for 
our children and our children's children.
  Mr. Speaker, let us hope that the other body will adopt a balanced 
budget amendment, and that we will then follow suit immediately.

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