[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REVISITING THE REAGAN-BUSH YEARS

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Ladies and gentlemen, I was motivated by the previous 
speaker. We had a $945 billion debt in America in 1980. We changed the 
checkbook and one person could have stopped spending in its tracks from 
1981 to 1989, one person, Ronald Reagan, President of the United 
States. We never overrode a veto of the President of the United States 
from 1981 to 1992 dealing with spending in America. Every nickel that 
was spent in America from 1981 to 1992 was because either Ronald Reagan 
or George Bush signed the bill allowing that expenditure to go forth.
  I have voted for the balanced budget amendment the last two times. I 
am going to vote for it again. But spending got out of control in this 
country in 1981. We sustained more debt in the last 12 years than in 
all the years prior to that time.

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