[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 82 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5088]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                       VOTE TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, let me remind my friend on the left 
that just spoke that punishment is saddling the future generation with 
the debt, if we fail to act, if we fail to pass a budget that balances 
over the next 5 to 7 years.
  Punishment is failing to do something in the next few days that will 
get this country in the right direction fiscally. If we fail to act, 
the children of this country face $187,000 in interest alone if they 
were born tomorrow. A child born tomorrow would pay $187,000 in 
interest alone on this Nation's debt.
  Tomorrow we have the opportunity to vote on a budget that will 
balance over the next 5 to 7 years. Tomorrow we have an opportunity to 
send this country in the right direction, to take it out of its 
financial abyss where the left-leaning liberals have taken it over the 
last 40 years.
  Tomorrow we have an opportunity to take this country in the right 
direction. I ask my colleagues to consider very strongly where they 
want this country to go, a budget that is balanced or where it has been 
over the last 40 years.

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