[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 52 (Tuesday, March 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3337]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                        THE ONE-PENNY BUDGET CUT

  (Mr. MARTINI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARTINI. Mr. Speaker, last week I sent every Member of the House 
one penny.
  One penny that is what we were talking about in the budget rescission 
passed last week.
  The rescissions package the House passed represents approximately one 
one-hundredth of the Federal budget for fiscal year 1995.
  If we cannot cut that from the budget, what are we doing here in 
Congress?
  Mr. Speaker, my home State of New Jersey went through this same 
process years before Congress did.
  Then, as now, the doomsayers said the difference of a penny would 
ruin the Garden State.
  Well, the doomsayers were wrong then and they are wrong now.
  We will show the American people that cutting one penny on the dollar 
off the budget will not ruin our Nation. Rather as Congress decides to 
make the difficult decisions to turn our fiscal situation around, our 
Nation will only get stronger, not weaker.
  Mr. Speaker, for 40 years, the other party has shown that they do not 
have the resolve to cut even one penny. For America's sake, we do, and 
we did last week.

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