[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 61 (Tuesday, May 17, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 17, 1994]
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                     PASS SPENDING CUTS FROM A TO Z

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Madam Speaker, in private industry things work a little 
differently than they do in Congress.
  Before being a Member of Congress, I sold business insurance, and if 
I told a customer that his premium was not going to go up over last 
year, that meant he was going to pay the same amount of money. But not 
so in Congress. In Congress, when we say there is no increase in 
spending, we simply mean there is not going to be as much of an 
increase as projected.
  When we say there is going to be a cut, what we mean is there is 
going to be a decrease in the projected increase, not a real cut the 
way you and I think of a cut in our households or businesses.
  There is a solution to change this foolishness, Madam Speaker, and 
that is the spending cuts of the A-to-Z plan. It will give Members of 
Congress a real chance for deficit reduction. It will give us a chance 
to vote on specific, enumerated spending cuts which will be a welcome 
breath of fresh air.
  Let us pass spending cuts from A to Z.

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