[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 52 (Wednesday, May 4, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 4, 1994]
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     PHONY SPENDING CUTS? A TO Z PLAN MAKES HONEST-TO-GOODNESS CUTS

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, it was fascinating to hear the lady from 
Connecticut stand up and talk about the A to Z spending plan being 
phony spending cuts. When you really get serious in Congress and make 
honest-to-goodness cuts from last year's spending, it is called phony? 
It has a kind of ``Alice-in-Wonderland'' quality about the words.
  As Humpty Dumpty said, ``When I use words, it means exactly what I 
want them to mean.''
  Over the last decade or so, we have had four different budgets in 
which serious reductions in spending were promised: 1982, immediate tax 
increases with spending cuts down the road; Gramm-Rudman, immediate tax 
increases with spending cuts in the out years; 1990, immediate tax 
increases with spending cuts in the out years; and the last out year 
occurred last year when we had the largest tax increase in history with 
no net spending cuts until the out year.
  The A to Z plan currently before us, for which we are signing the 
discharge petition, gives the United States people and this Congress 
the opportunity to see that we are willing to make enough choices, to 
make real spending cuts.
  No wonder it scares the devil out of the left.

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