[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                  URGING SUPPORT FOR A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. RADANOVICH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. RADANOVICH. Mr. Speaker, President Clinton claims he wants a 
Government that is lean but not mean. Today the Federal Government is 
big and mean. It takes 1 of every 4 dollars the average family earns. 
That is mean. The average family has to spend more to pay for the cost 
of Government than on anything else.
  Big government is not just mean to our families. It is nasty to our 
children. This year the Federal deficit will skyrocket to $176 billion. 
The debt will explode to $4.7 trillion. That is $75,000 of debt for 
every family of four. Families beware--the Democratic leadership does 
not help you--they thrive on you.
  There is a better, leaner way, and we are voting on it this week. It 
is our balanced budget and it puts the big, mean old system on a diet. 
Our balanced budget ends deficits by 2002, returns power, control, and 
money to families and restores the American Dream to our children.
  I urge my colleagues to vote for leaner, not meaner, Government. 
Support our balanced budget.

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