[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H597]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                            BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. METCALF asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, at the end of every month Americans sit 
down with a checkbook in one hand and a stack of bills in the other. 
They realize that you cannot continue to spend what you do not have.
  But Congress has never fully accepted that concept. Mr. Speaker, for 
decades Congress has led this Nation into a sea of red ink. Clearly a 
constitutional amendment is now the only way to rescue Congress from 
itself, and to force it to do what 80 percent of our constituents would 
have us do; that is, balance the budget.
  Some say we do not need an amendment to balance the budget, we just 
says ``no'' to the special interests.

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  They say just balance the budget. They are wrong, tragically wrong.
  Jefferson said, ``let no more be said of confidence in men but bind 
them down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.''

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