[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6208]
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                      CLINTON BUDGET NOT BALANCED

  (Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, the Congressional Budget Office has weighed 
in on President Clinton's plan to balance the budget in 10 years. Their 
conclusions were not too, shall we say, promising.
  CBO concludes that Clinton's new budget would not even come close to 
balancing in the year 2005. They predict the deficit that year will be 
$209 billion, about what it is today.
  During his first State of the Union Address, Bill Clinton sang the 
praises of the CBO. Now, the differences between his numbers and CBO's 
numbers are passed off as merely a difference of opinion between policy 
wonks.
  Mr. Speaker, Bill Clinton's budget is a sham. If he were serious 
about balancing the budget, he would get serious about the Federal 
Government's spending problem.
  Instead of a real balanced budget, all Bill Clinton proposes is a 
plan to protect big government.

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