[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 57 (Tuesday, March 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3819-H3820]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    WISHING AWAY THE BUDGET DEFICIT

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to commend the distinguished 
Republican Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Domenici, for 
his straightforward comment on Saturday that, ``My goal as chairman of 
the committee is to produce a balanced budget without any tax cut.'' 
Such candor has been rare from House Republicans who are constructing a 
budget in a dream world. It is based on the first law of Disney 
appropriate for Fantasyland that wishing will make it so.
  We cannot wish away the budget deficit. We cannot wish away and get a 
balanced budget and provide tax breaks for those who earn $200,000 a 
year and 
[[Page H3820]] more, and yet that is what they proposed.
  Indeed, they have cut last week's school lunches, and now we are 
about to see them attempt to cut on the big brothers and the big 
sisters of those same children when they cut student loans.
  Fortunately and finally last week over 100 House Republicans 
questioned whether providing a tax break for those at the $200,000 
level made any sense. It does not. This move represented a half step, 
but that is better than the kind of lockstep that we have seen of late.


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