[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 77 (Wednesday, May 10, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                             A HISTORIC DAY

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, today truly is a historic day in America. 
For the first time in anybody's memory, this Congress today will 
present to the American people a plan to balance the budget over the 
next 7 years, a plan that will save Medicare, will improve Medicare for 
our senior citizens.
  It has taken a new Congress to have the guts to bring this issue to 
the floor of the House because the American people want it. Eighty 
percent of the American people are demanding that we deal with the 
fiscal and moral crisis that is occurring in this country and so we 
have a plan.
  I find it interesting that, my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle, the President of the United States has no plan. There is no plan 
from you. And so they are going to criticize. They are going to spread 
fear amongst the people about what our plan is. But I would urge the 
American people to ask the other side, the liberals, where is their 
plan to balance the budget? Where is their plan to save the future for 
our children and their children? Because the Republican plan to balance 
the budget is a contract with our children and theirs.

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