[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 78 (Thursday, May 11, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4799]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


         REPUBLICANS SUBMIT AN HONEST BALANCED BUDGET PROPOSAL

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, my daughter is grown and she and her husband 
have a 1\1/2\-year-old son and another child on the way. The last time 
an official House committee submitted a bill to balance the budget, she 
was 2.
  Today, House Republicans present the first honest attempt to balance 
the budget. We do so not for politics, but for our children, my 
daughter and son, and my grandchildren. We do so because my family, 
your family and families across the country cannot achieve the American 
dream if we do nothing.
  If we do nothing, we will pay more interest on the debt than we spend 
for defense. Moreover, my grandchildren will pay more than $185,000 in 
their lifetimes just to pay interest on the debt.
  We will not stand by and watch any child in this country be subject 
to that type of cruelty. Yet the Democrat Party, which needlessly 
frightened children of the impending doom of school lunches is utterly 
unmoved by the threat to the dreams and future of those same kids.

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