[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H599]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      TAKE A LOOK UNDER THE HOOD OF THE BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, it is very hard to take the well after 
such an emotional time. I think Americans all wish we could get on with 
business and stop this kind of partisan fireworks, and yet today is the 
day where I think, if a lot of Americans knew what kind of business we 
were going to do, and we were really going to be giving them the 
business, they would want this partisan fireworks to continue.
  We are going to take up a balanced budget amendment. I say to my 
colleagues:
  ``When you read the rule, you will find out that in the Judiciary 
Committee we didn't have proper notice. As you know, the major 
amendments were never dealt with. We rolled it out here to the floor, 
and the very first thing we are going to do today is take up a 
resolution saying, `Oops. Well, we really don't mean Social Security to 
be included.' But if you think that resolution is going to outweigh a 
constitutional amendment, you're wrong. This kind of haste is going to 
make people very, very angry. You don't buy a car without looking under 
the hood, and don't buy this today. It really is not what you think it 
is.''

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