[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H299-H300]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           IT'S THE SPENDING

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the budget problem in Washington is not caused 
by too little revenue. The problem in 
[[Page H300]] Washington continues to be that taxpayers' dollars are 
wasted on low-priority, redundant or unnecessary programs. The dollars 
in fraud, waste, and abuse total billions annually.
  The basic message from November 8 was that people understand their 
Government is too big and spends too much. This historic Congress is 
now beginning to clean out the cobwebs left by 40 years of one-party 
rule. We cannot turn our backs on 40 years of mismanagement overnight, 
and we cannot turn back those mistakes. But in these first 100 days we 
will take the necessary first steps, voting on the balanced budget 
amendment, considering a line item veto, and beginning the hard but 
necessary work on cutting back on Federal spending.
  As the Clinton campaign has been fond of saying, ``It's the economy, 
stupid,'' Now America has told us, ``No, it's the spending, stupid.'' 
So let us cut out the stupid spending and balance the budget.

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