[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                  DEFICIT REDUCTION MUST BE BIPARTISAN

  (Mrs. KENNELLY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. KENNELLY. Mr. Speaker, in 1990, Congress considered President 
Bush's budget agreement to reduce the deficit.
  Only 47 Republicans in this Chamber voted in favor of their own 
President's bill.
  Last year, Congress voted on President Clinton's historic deficit 
reduction package. That bill was originally estimated to reduce the 
deficit by $496 billion, but that figure was recently changed to $650 
billion.

  Not a single Republican in the House of Representatives voted for 
that package.
  But now we are being told that we need a Republican majority to 
reduce the deficit in the future. I will answer that by saying ``Look 
who reduced it in the past.''
  Deficit reduction must be a priority for everyone. New colleagues of 
both parties will join us next year, and I welcome those who come to 
Congress ready to work with those of us who have already accomplished 
so much.

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