[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1978]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          BALANCING THE BUDGET

  (Mr. DOYLE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DOYLE. Mr. Speaker, on November 8, the citizens of the 18th 
Congressional District in Pennsylvania sent me to Congress with a clear 
message. They wanted Government waste and inefficiency eliminated, they 
wanted the pork barrel, spendthrift ways of the past to change, they 
wanted our deficit brought down. I heard that message loud and clear, 
and I was proud to cosponsor the Democratic balanced budget amendment 
with Charlie Stenholm and work to have it passed in this House with the 
help of the Republican majority.
  I stand here today to express my extreme disappointment, that the 
very first spending package produced by the Republican majority since 
the passage of that balanced budget amendment would increase the 1995 
deficit by $282 million and add $645 million to the deficit over 5 
years.
  It is ironic that when Republicans want to spend billions to build 
star wars, there is no mention of balanced budgets, but if it is 
lunches for our school children, Republicans want to abolish it in the 
name of a balanced budget.
  Watch the vote today on the defense supplemental bill and we will see 
who is really serious about balancing the budget.


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