[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 98 (Thursday, June 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT'S NEW BUDGET?

  (Mr. SCHIFF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I certainly welcome the fact that the 
President of the United States has joined the Congress in calling for a 
balanced budget.
  I have noticed that the media has already begun a comparison of the 
President's new budget with the House and Senate budget resolutions. 
But there is a problem. The problem is there is no new Presidential 
budget, at least not yet.
  Now, this is a budget, in fact, this is the President's budget that 
the President submitted to the Congress in February of this year. By 
its size, you can see it is a point-by-point spending plan for every 
Government agency and every Government program, just as the House and 
Senate budget resolutions provide for.
  But we have seen no similar set of documents since the President's 
speech to the Nation the other night referring to a new budget. So, 
when the President says that he wants to increase spending for 
education, we have no idea how he intends to pay for it, and when the 
President says there will be a 20 percent cut in discretionary spending 
except for education and defense, we have no idea whether that means 20 
percent across the board or whether it means an average of a 20-percent 
cut.
  Mr. Speaker, to conclude, a famous commercial once said, ``Where's 
the beef?'' I would like to paraphrase that to say, ``Where is the 
President's new budget?''


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