[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 99 (Friday, June 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6048-H6049]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  IN SUPPORT OF THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET

  (Mr. MORAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the budget that our 
President introduced this week. It is a thoughtful, fiscally 
responsible, and compassionate approach to the most difficult challenge 
that faces this governing body.
  The President has included those items that are least justifiable in 
terms of the Federal role. It goes after the corporate tax subsidies, 
the most egregious ones. It follows up on the down payment we made on 
balancing the budget in 1993, the Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation 
Act, by keeping the spending caps on domestic discretionary programs.
  Most importantly, it reforms the health care system. It has the 
insurance reforms that we have reached consensus on, that need to be 
made. It does not take money from the recipients of our programs in the 
way that most of the Medicare cuts that are included in the Republican 
budget do.
  But what it does is to go after the providers, the providers that, in 
fact, have been taking most of the increase 

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in health care costs, the insurers, the facilities, and even some of 
the physicians. What we need is a reform that affects everyone, where 
everyone contributes a reasonable share to balancing the budget, to 
achieving what has got to be our Nation's foremost objective. The 
President's plan does that in 10 years, it does it in a responsible 
way, one that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle ought to 
support.

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