[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 25 (Wednesday, March 9, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 9, 1994]
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                      PASS A TRULY BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow this body will begin debate on the 
Clinton budget which increases our national debt by almost $2 trillion 
over the next 5 years. But the balanced budget task force has an 
alternative to that kind of fiscal irresponsibility.
  Our budget, that we will present on the floor tomorrow, balances the 
budget within 5 years. It does that by cutting over $600 billion in 
Federal spending with over 500 specific cuts. It does not raise taxes, 
it does not touch Social Security trust funds, it does not touch earned 
veterans' benefits. It does restore the defense budget which was 
decimated by the Clinton plan. And 4 years from now we will have a 
balanced budget with a surplus of $5 million; in the 6th year we will 
have a surplus of $5 billion, and that is going to help restore fiscal 
responsibility to this Congress. We do it by cutting and consolidating 
and terminating and eliminating and privatizing and contracting out and 
merging and selling off many Federal portfolios. We tighten the belt of 
the Federal Government, which is what the American people want.
  I ask Members to vote for this balanced budget tomorrow.

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