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




                       WE WILL BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. METCALF asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. METCALF. Mr. Speaker, we will balance the budget. This will not 
be easy, but we will balance the budget, but not quite as soon as we 
would like, but we are going to do it.
  How will we do this? We are going to have to rein in the spending, 
and we will rein in the spending.
  The way that we should look at each expenditure, as this budget comes 
before us, look at each expenditure in this way: Is this spending so 
important that we are willing to borrow the money to do it? We do not 
have the money. We have debt now. We do not have the money. Borrow the 
money to do it and force our children and grandchildren to pay interest 
on it for the rest of their lives, to lower their standard of living to 
pay interest on that money for the rest of their lives? If it is that 
important, then we should spend the money, and if it is not, we should 
delete it.

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