[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H188]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             ON WHOSE BACK?

  (Mr. NEUMANN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NEUMANN. Mr. Speaker, the naysayers and doubters are out in full 
force scaring the American people about the balanced budget amendment. 
The question they ask is on whose back will the budget be balanced?
   Mr. Speaker, I would like to reverse that question and ask on whose 
back will the burden fall if we do not balance the budget?

                              {time}  1150

  If Congress does not act responsibly to control wasteful government 
spending and growth, the children of our country are the ones who will 
pay. We now have over $4 trillion in debt. How far in debt do we have 
to go before we realize what we are doing to the children of our 
Nation? The American people want action and they want action now.
  They want a government that is smaller, less expensive and more 
efficient. They want a government that will control its spending 
habits. Let us not break the back of our children's future. Let us pass 
the balanced budget amendment and let us do it now.


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