[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]




                STENHOLM-SIMON BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Mr. MINGE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MINGE. Mr. Speaker, 130 years ago, President Lincoln, in 
addressing a troubled nation, said, ``The dogmas of the quiet past are 
inadequate for the stormy present. As our problems are new, we must 
think anew.''
  The unprecedented deficits that this government has incurred year 
after year in the last 1\1/2\ decades have created a national debt of 
staggering proportions. The balanced budget amendment is a new approach 
to the stormy financial burden afflicting this Nation. We have a firm, 
respected bipartisan balanced budget amendment which the Congress came 
close to passing 6 months ago. It is the Stenholm-Simon proposal. Let 
us act promptly to pass this bipartisan amendment in 1995.

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