[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S7232]
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                    GETTING THE BUDGET UNDER CONTROL

  Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I would just like to say to my friend from 
Idaho, I appreciate his remarks on the reasons for getting the budget 
under control and the historic nature of this undertaking. I, too, 
although I certainly do not agree with everything in the budget 
resolution and I have supported a number of amendments and will support 
others tomorrow, I, too, want to add my thanks and congratulations to 
Senator Domenici, the chairman of the Budget Committee, and others on 
the Budget Committee, Senator Exon and all who worked so long and hard, 
disagreeing often, but coming out with this budget resolution that at 
least is a beginning point in the debate for the road we must travel.
  It is my hope that I will be able to support this resolution in the 
final analysis. It will depend on what amendments are adopted or not 
adopted tomorrow. But I certainly hope that I will be able to support 
it. It is my hope that when it goes to conference, the conference will 
look carefully at what the Senate did today in turning down the very 
large tax cuts that were proposed by the Senator from Texas. All of us 
would like tax cuts, all of us would like to return that money to the 
American people because it is their money, but I think the public 
overwhelmingly that I represent wants us to get the budget under 
control and does not want us to take steps that will make that more and 
more difficult.
  We all know that there is going to be group after group coming here 
this summer that are going to be complaining about budget cuts, many of 
them with justification because they are going to be impacted. We all 
know that after that process starts, it is more likely there is going 
to be fallback in this regard. We all know that we need a reserve fund 
because we are going to have difficulties in implementation based on 
any historical examination.
  So it is my hope that when the conference takes place, that the 
message, by a strong vote from the U.S. Senate, to concentrate on 
deficit reduction and wait until we have really accomplished that 
before declaring a dividend I hope sinks in.

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