[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 83 (Thursday, May 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5236]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             REPUBLICANS COMMITTED TO BALANCING THE BUDGET

  (Mr. DAVIS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DAVIS. Mr. Speaker, the changes going on here in Washington are 
truly historic. The new majority here in the House has said goodbye to 
the old Washington ways.
  Congress is now run by those who see that the Federal Government is 
not a solution to everything. It has become much too big and it spends 
too much.
  For the first time in a generation, Congress has stood up to the mess 
we call a budget. We are committed to balancing this budget, so that 
our children will have a future free of debt and full of opportunity.
  The defenders of the status quo on the other side of the aisle though 
criticize us, they offer no alternative. They have no vision and they 
have no plan. The only thing they have left are worn-out class welfare 
slogans and programs that will continue out Nation's course to more 
spending, more taxes, higher interest rates, and greater debt for our 
children and grandchildren.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans are moving ahead to preserve the American 
Dream for our children and their children. We have a plan, we have a 
vision of a debt-free America, and we will balance the budget.


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