[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 10, 1994]
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                         THE REPUBLICAN BUDGET

  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, later today and into tomorrow, the House 
will have a choice between two different budgets. One of those budgets, 
the Democrat budget, expands Government. It does so in their claim to 
do the country good.
  We believe that there is another way of doing the country good, and 
that is to offer a plan for reform and a plan that helps the American 
family. If Members look at the two budgets they will find that the 
Democrat budget is a status quo budget. In fact, it is worse than the 
status quo. If we would allow the budget to simply grow automatically, 
we would end up with less spending and less deficit than what is 
included in the Democrat budget that will come to the floor in the next 
few hours.
  In the Republican budget we offer health care reform, we offer 
welfare reform, we offer a crime package, and we offer the American 
people a $500 tax credit for every child in the family. We do so at the 
same time as reducing the deficit $150 billion below what the Democrats 
are offering on the floor.
  If the American people want true reform and they want the families of 
this country empowered, they will support the Republicans in what we 
are attempting to do in this House, and that is to change the direction 
of America, to bring about real change in the budget process.

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