[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          BALANCED BUDGET PLAN AND A TAX CUT ARE LONG OVERDUE

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON to Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I say to the gentlewoman, ``I 
agree with you, Marcy.''
  Mr. Speaker, as my colleagues know, for the past 40 years the Federal 
Government has supported its wasteful spending habits by increasing 
taxes on our businesses, our seniors, our families, our children. This 
week that destructive pattern will finally come to an end. Republicans 
will pass the first balanced budget plan in 26 years, and provide 
needed tax cuts to spur the economy and give money back to the people 
who earned it.
  Despite the whining from critics, I know tax cuts and deficit 
reduction go hand-in-hand. The only way to reduce the amount of money 
the Government takes is to reduce taxes. I say to my colleagues, ``The 
Government takes in taxes from you, the people, and I feel compelled to 
remind everyone in this body it is not our money. It belongs to the 
American taxpayers.''
  Let us help America. Let us give them back what they deserve, a big 
old whopping mother of a tax cut and a balanced budget. Both are long 
overdue.

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