[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H250]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS COULD HAVE STOPPED SPENDING IN ITS TRACKS

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I had not intended to give a 1-minute, but I 
hear this carping about the balanced budget amendment. Twelve out of 
the last 14 years, we have had a Republican President. Not once, not 
once did any one of those Republican Presidents submit a balanced 
budget to the Congress of the United States, not once.
  Second, one person, from 1982 to 1989, could have stopped spending in 
its tracks: Ronald Reagan.
  And from 1989 to January 1993, one person, one person, one person 
could have stopped spending in its tracks: George Bush.
  We went from a budget deficit of $945 billion in 1980 to a budget 
deficit of $4.5 trillion, 12 years into Republican leadership of the 
country.


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