[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 102 (Wednesday, June 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H6164-H6165]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


            PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE SCORED HIS BUDGET PROPOSAL

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, we welcomed the President a week and a night 
ago as he decided to join, rejoin, the national debate on the balanced 
budget. And he told us in a short address to the Nation that he was 
going to balance the budget. He would do it over 10 years. [[Page H 
6165]] 
  We only wish that he had, in fact, contacted the CBO or the OMB to 
get it scored before he made that statement that he was offering a 
balanced budget in 10 years. Because, frankly, if we balance the budget 
in 10 years, or we balance the budget in 7 years, there is room there 
to talk about things that are difficult problems but are things that we 
can negotiate, we can talk about.
  But when CBO scored the President's plan, what we found out is shown 
in this graph. And that is that the Republican budget that we have 
passed as a resolution goes from the current deficit down to zero by 
the year 2002. But the President's budget stays, it hovers just around 
$200 billion deficits for the next 7 years and then it goes on the next 
3 years at $200 billion deficits. I only wish that the President had, 
in fact, gotten it scored first.

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