[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


           THE INVISIBLE DEMOCRAT PLAN TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, yesterday House Republican leaders 
introduced our 7-year program to balance the budget. Democrats and 
liberal critics immediately jumped on it, crying and screaming and 
insisting there is another way to balance the budget without cutting 
spending.
  So to keep the debate in perspective, I thought I would introduce to 
the people the Democrat plan to balance the budget and take care of 
Medicare. Here it is. Excuse me, it is upside down, backward. There you 
go. There you go. This is it, Mr. Speaker, the Democrat plan to balance 
the budget and take care of Medicare.
  I hope it is not in too much detail for my friends on the other side 
of the aisle. I am sorry to get into such detail during a 1-minute 
speech. But the fact is, it is May. We have been in session since 
January. Balancing the budget is a bipartisan responsibility. We are 
$4.8 trillion in debt. The third largest expenditure on the budget is 
the interest service on the national debt. Medicare will be broke in 6 
years. If we want to help senior citizens, Mr. Speaker, we have got to 
do a little bit more than this.

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