[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 47 (Tuesday, March 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3093]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    FREEDOM OF CHOICE ON BUDGET CUTS

  (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, this is a place where we come to make 
choices. Many of us, both Republican and Democrat, are ready to make 
choices to reduce the Federal budget, but today in the Committee on 
Rules, the Republican leadership of the Committee on Rules is ready to 
deny us a choice, a series of choices, that the American people have a 
right to hear us make.
  This week on this floor, we will have presented to us a $17 billion 
budget cut proposal by the Republican majority. Some of us agree that 
the budget ought to be cut, but ought to be cut in different places. We 
want to offer an amendment that would say: ``Let us not take home 
heating assistance away from senior citizens across this country; 
instead, let us take the money from the S&L bailout. Let us not take 
money away from reading teachers for children across this country; let 
us take the money from energy subsidies to huge multinational 
corporations.
  We are not going to get the right to make that choice unless the rule 
proposed by the Republican leadership is defeated. Honor your Contract 
With America, open up the promise, and defeat this rule.


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