[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4189]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     TIME FOR THE PEOPLE BACK HOME

  (Mr. HANCOCK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HANCOCK. Mr. Speaker, this argument that we are into is getting 
to where if it was not so serious, it would be amusing. We are talking 
about voting to reduce the deficit. We are talking about concentrating 
on the budget of the Federal Government.
  Do you not think it is time that we started talking about the people 
back home and doing something to help them balance their budgets? Who 
do we represent up here? The U.S. Government or the people that elected 
us?
  I am going to concentrate my vote on doing everything I can to give 
the people tax breaks back home and reduce the overall size of the 
Federal Government rather than merely talking about, we cannot have tax 
breaks until we stop the spending.
  We tried that once. We are going to get the tax breaks, and we are 
going to stop the spending. And we are going to start representing the 
people that elected us instead of saying, we are the Government. We are 
not the Government. The people sent us up here to represent them.

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