[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 44 (Thursday, March 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2900]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  LET US BALANCE THE BUDGET WITHOUT PLAYING POLITICAL PROMISING GAMES 
                             WITH TAX CUTS

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Alan Greenspan testified before 
Congress and said that the dollar plunged to historic lows due in large 
part to the Federal budget deficit. We in the House passed a 
constitutional amendment to balance the budget.
  We need to make the courageous decisions to help balance that budget, 
but tax cuts, further taking away from lunch programs for hungry 
children across America, taking food out of their mouths to pay for a 
tax cut, is not the way to go.
  Recently before the Committee on the Budget such economists as 
Stephen Roach and Roger Brinner both said tax cuts are a bad idea. Let 
us make the courageous decisions and provide all American people with 
the best tax cut we can. That is to reduce the deficit. That will 
create better interest rates to buy a new home, to refinance a home, 
and to buy a car.
  Let us not play political promising games with tax cuts. Let us make 
courageous decisions to balance the budget.

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