[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 79 (Friday, May 12, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4903-H4904]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                      ACHIEVING A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, I just came over because I was 
hearing some of the comments.
  What concerns me very, very much is what is happening from the 
Democrats while Republicans have designed a budget that will balance in 
the year 2002. Everybody, I would hope, thinks that there is some good 
in achieving a zero deficit, balancing our budget and not spending any 
more than we take in.
  Yet the other side of the aisle, and I usually am not partisan on 
these things, have seen this as an opportunity to criticize every one 
of these cuts that the Republicans are making, without presenting to us 
their idea of where we should be.
  If you just look at what the President sent over here as far as his 
budget, his deficit spending, his spending more than what we are taking 
in in the year 1996 is 211, Republicans 156; in the last year, 2002, 
the Republicans' proposal is down to zero, zero deficit. We are living 
within the budget, within the revenues that we are taking into this 
Government. The President is 318.
  Mr. Speaker, the other side should not criticize. They should be 
forthright 
[[Page H4904]] in a saying here is what we think are the reasonable 
cuts if we are going to achieve a balanced budget.


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