[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 118 (Thursday, July 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7263]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              REAL CUTS BEING MADE IN FEDERAL EXPENDITURES

  (Mr. EHLERS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. EHLERS. Mr. Speaker, I am very disappointed once again this 
morning to hear the other side of the aisle talking about imaginary 
cuts to Medicare, cuts which have never been proposed by the 
Republicans and which we never plan to implement. I want to show you 
the cuts that the Republicans are implementing, and this chart shows 
the beginning of that effort.
  We might call it a Sav-O-Meter. The legislative branch we have cut by 
$150 million; foreign aid by $1.5 billion; the energy and water budget 
by $1.6 billion; the Interior budget by $1.6 billion.
  We are just starting. We are only partway through the appropriations 
process, and we have already cut $5 billion out of the Federal budget 
compared to last year. We expect to go up to about $21 billion.
  What does this mean to Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer of America? Roughly at 
this point about $50 per family in cuts already. We expect to get up in 
the neighborhood of $210 to $250 in cuts for the average American 
family. Those are real cuts. Those are cuts the people will notice. 
They are not the imaginary cuts the other side talks about.

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