[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1290]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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            PRESIDENT'S BUDGET DOA, DEVOID OF ACCOUNTABILITY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Burton of Indiana). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of January 4, 1995, the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Horn] is recognized during morning business for 3 minutes.
  Mr. HORN. Mr. Speaker, when Democrats controlled this Chamber and 
Republicans were in the White House, the budgets submitted by 
Republican Presidents were always considered DOA, dead on arrival.
  Well, we Republicans who are now in the majority will not follow that 
tradition. We will take a good, hard look at what the President 
proposes, and where we find common ground, we will work with him. But 
it is clear that the President's budget is not nearly as aggressive as 
it should be in reducing the size and the power of the Federal 
Government.
  The few cuts that are there are halfhearted, and spending is still 
going up too rapidly. In fact, this budget calls for a $50 billion 
increase in spending from the current budget.
  So much for leadership. The Wall Street Journal reported that the 
budget ``makes little further progress in reducing the deficit.'' So 
much for leadership.
  The paper reports that the President's game plan is to let 
Republicans make the hard decisions. This is not Presidential 
leadership; it is Presidential abdication.
  You know, come to think of it, maybe the President's budget is DOA. 
But that is not dead on arrival, that is devoid of accountability.


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