[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TRUTH-IN-BUDGETING AMENDMENT

  (Mr. STUPAK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STUPAK. Mr. Speaker, last night in the President's State of the 
Union Message he laid out his challenges for this Congress and for the 
American people to fulfill in the next year. The President asked that 
these challenges be met in an open, honest bipartisan debate on all of 
the issues like the balanced budget amendment.
  As the President mentioned in his remarks, we Democrats support a 
balanced budget amendment, with a full and honest debate, not just 
between majority and minority Members but with the American people.
  The American people want to know, as we begin this debate, how are we 
to balance this budget by the year 2002.
  Today we will have an opportunity as we begin this debate to vote for 
a truth-in-budgeting amendment by the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. 
Conyers]. I urge all of my colleagues to support the truth-in-budgeting 
amendment which will tell us how we get to a balanced budget by the 
year 2002.
  How else can we assure the American people they will have a 
opportunity to participate in this debate, to know whether or not there 
will be cuts in Medicare, to know whether or not there will be cuts in 
Social Security? The only way to guarantee it is truth in budgeting.
  Support the Conyers amendment.
  

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