[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 79 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4903]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                 ENTERING THE BUDGET DEBATE WITH FACTS

  (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, you know, Sunday is Mothers' Day. I do not 
remember my mother in the 40 years that I have been her son, worrying 
about the Federal budget on Mother's Day. I just do not see ourselves 
sitting around the house and ringing, ``Oh, my goodness, the Democrats 
are not going to get their way in Congress. Mother's Day is ruined.''
  You know, my mom, my family, we do just fine without the Federal 
Government running our lives, and that is what the American people 
want: less Federal Government intervention in the family.
  The families of America want the Federal Government out of the 
picture. The best way to protect the family is to make sure that we 
have a balanced budget so that there will be a Government that is not 
totally bankrupt in our future, which my mother's grandchildren and 
their grandchildren will enjoy.
  You know, a great political campaign was run on this slogan: ``If not 
us, who; if not now, when; if not this, what?''
  The Democrats' answer to that question, ``Well, if not us, somebody; 
if not now, someday; and if not this, we do not know.''
  You know, it is time to come to the table with specifics. Are you 
going to balance the budget, or are you going to sit here and scare 
everybody in America that the sky is falling? Let us get responsible, 
let us enter the debate with the true spirit of facts and not rhetoric.


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