[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H554]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
THE TIME TO DELIVER IS HERE
Mr. BROWNBACK asked and was given permission to address the House for
1 minute.)
Mr. BROWNBACK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to address the body to comment
about the elections on November 8 and the clear statement the American
people spoke of at that point, which was to reduce the size, the scope,
and the intrusiveness of the Federal Government. It has come that time
to stand and deliver.
I call on the administration to put forward proposals looking at all
Federal agencies for their continued work and their efforts in
questioning whether or not we should reduce the Federal role in these
areas, and I ask the administration to address that and to examine
whole roles of agencies and programs. This body has been continually
focused on the costs of these programs. I would ask the body to
consider the responsibility of us to our children and the enormous
deficit that has been put forth, the enormous debt that has been
accumulated and what responsibility we have to the children of this
country to free them of that debt.
Mr. Speaker, it is one thing to spend our children's inheritance. It
is quite another to spend them in debt, as we have, and also the
opportunity we have to free the society of these strains.
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