[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 13 (Monday, January 23, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H485]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


   WE NEED FULL DISCLOSURE OF CUTS IN THE REPUBLICAN BALANCED BUDGET

  (Ms. PELOSI asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, later this week the 
House will be voting on a Republican balanced budget amendment which 
does contain a three-fifths supermajority requirement but does not 
contain any listing of the cuts necessary to balance the budget. 
Members of Congress are being asked to buy a pig in a poke. The 
Congress and the American people need disclosure, and the Republicans 
have been unwilling, or unable, to list the cuts that will be required. 
Without the facts, the American people support the balanced budget 
amendment 4 to 1, until they learn that Social Security, Medicare, 
education, et cetera, may be cut. Then the amendment is opposed 2 to 1.
  Mr. Speaker, if indeed our Republican colleagues do not intend to cut 
Social Security, why did they defeat the amendment to build a 
constitutional wall between Social Security and the rest of the budget? 
Why did they defeat the amendment to disclose a balanced budget 
blueprint before sending the balanced budget amendment to the States? 
It is clear that the American people need full disclosure of the cuts 
in the Republican balanced budget. They should not be handed a pig or a 
piglet in a poke.

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