[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 40 (Friday, March 3, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S3440]
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           A PROFILE OF BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT SUPPORTERS

  Mr. INHOFE. Mr. President, before we hear the analysis from the 
distinguished Senator from Idaho, I want to give you my own analysis. 
Yesterday on the floor, yesterday afternoon, I reminded the President, 
I reminded our fellow Members, and hopefully many in America who might 
be watching that those individuals who were fighting the balanced 
budget amendment have a very interesting profile, some things in 
common. I pointed out and documented that all of those 41 individuals 
who were the cosponsors of the right-to-know amendment to the budget 
balancing amendment had a very liberal background. Each one of the 41 
had either a D or an F rating by the National Taxpayers Union. Each one 
of the individuals had voted for the very large spending program called 
President Clinton's tax stimulus program. And each one had voted for 
the 1993 tax increase which has been characterized as the largest 
single tax increase in the history of public finance in America or 
anywhere in the world.
  I announced that I suspected that the 33 Democrats who managed to 
keep from allowing us to have that one more vote to pass a balanced 
budget amendment yesterday would fit this same profile. I have analyzed 
this. I did this personally last night and I will give you the results 
of that.
  Of the 33 Democrats--and it only took one to come over to our side 
and to free the future generations from the shackles they are going to 
be bound with--all 33 voted on the cloture vote in favor of the tax 
stimulus program, which was the big spending program. All 33 have a D 
or an F rating by the National Taxpayers Union. And 31 of the 33--all 
but 2 of them--voted for the largest single tax increase in the history 
of public finance in America or any place in the world.
  The bottom line is this. All this talk about Social Security, all 
this talk about the right to know is bogus. The fact is those 
individuals did not want to balance the budget. They are big spenders.
  Thank you, Mr. President. I yield to the distinguished Senator from 
Idaho.
  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The distinguished Senator from Idaho is 
recognized.

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