[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H548]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


WHILE REPUBLICANS TRY TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT, DEMOCRATS TRY TO CHANGE THE 
                                SUBJECT

  (Mr. BALLENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BALLENGER. Mr. Speaker, the biggest bankruptcy in the world today 
is not occurring in Orange County or even in Mexico, but on the 
minority side of the aisle right here in this Chamber. With their petty 
parliamentary pranks, the Democrats are driving themselves into the 
intellectual bankrputcy.
  However, while the Democrats are busy committing slow political 
suicide, Republicans are making good on their promises to the American 
people to pass an unfunded mandate bill and a balanced budget amendment 
to the Constitution.
  I have news for my friends on the other side of the aisle. No amount 
of partisan sniping is going to distract us from doing the real work 
the American people sent us here to do.
  After we finish blowing the dust off the 10th amendment the Democrats 
for years have ignored, by passing an unfunded mandates bill, we are 
going to pass a balanced budget amendment as an encore.
  While we are trying to change the Government, the Democrats just want 
to change the subject.

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