[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 22 (Thursday, March 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 3, 1994]
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    A SUCCESSFUL BUDGET AND A HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN THAT WILL WORK

  (Mr. CLYBURN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLYBURN. Mr. Speaker, 2 months ago the opponents of health care 
reform announced no crisis in health care. Now we hear them declaring 
the health care security plan dead. These prognostications remind me 
more than a little bit of things we were hearing last year about the 
President's budget. Last year one of our opponents said that the 
President's budget will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce 
revenues, and increase the deficit.
  Mr. Speaker, let us look at what has happened. Today the deficit is 
projected to be 40-percent lower than it was projected to be 1 year 
ago. Today housing starts are up over 25 percent, and single-family 
starts are their highest level in 15 years.
  Under the President's budget, nearly 2 million jobs were created last 
year, including 1.7 million in the private sector, 70 percent more than 
was created in the whole 4 years previously.
  Mr. Speaker, the President's budget is working, and now we need to 
get on with reforming our health care delivery system.

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