[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 101 (Tuesday, June 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6094-H6095]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   PRESIDENT'S BUDGET OUT OF BALANCE

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, a week ago the President of the United States 
spoke to the American people and entered, reentered the debate. He had 
sort of been AWOL for several months about the budget, and he reentered 
the debate, came in from the cold and said that he was presenting us 
with a balanced budget, or a budget that would be in balance after 10 
years.
  Republicans, while wishing that he had probably been there a lot 
sooner, generally welcomed him and asked him to be a part of it and 
looked forward to that and felt good about that, felt good he was going 
to enter back into the fray.
  We have now found out from the CBO that, in fact, this budget that 
was presented is not in balance at all. In fact, it shows $200 billion 
deficits through the 5th year, through the 6th year, through the 7th 
year, through the 10th year. Every single year, it goes from $191 
billion to about $210 billion.
  It reminds me a great deal of the same situation we had in 1992, 
where the President campaigned from the center and then, after he was 
elected, governed from the left. Here we have a situation where the 
claim was made a [[Page H 6095]] week ago there was a balanced budget 
when, in fact, it is not.


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