[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HOW TO SHRINK THE FEDERAL BUDGET

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, here is a balanced budget, not a balanced 
budget amendment, but a balanced budget that we voted on last March. Do 
my colleagues know what? This budget did not raise taxes, did not cut 
Social Security, did not cut into veterans' contracts or obligations 
that we owe them.
  What it did was shrink the size of the Federal Government. It 
eliminated 150 programs like the Interstate Commerce Commission. It 
privatized 25 government agencies like the Federal Aviation 
Administration. It downsized the Department of Education, which has not 
produced anything in education, from 5,000 employees down to 500. 
Thirty-six thousand Commerce Department employees have not produced one 
nickel of profit in America, and we cut them from 36,000 down to 3,000.
  That is how to shrink the size of the Federal Government. We do not 
cut Social Security; we do not have to, and my colleagues know that.


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