[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 124 (Friday, July 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7920]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     LET US BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE

  (Mr. SOLOMON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. SOLOMON. Mr. Speaker, we all have to live by the rules of the 
House. In my opinion the previous speaker violated the rules of the 
House. We cannot talk about ethics investigations on the floor of this 
House.
  Mr. Speaker, we have heard a lot of rhetoric from people talking 
today on that side of the aisle, the Democrat side of the aisle. I just 
have to point out that I have been keeping track here. Just about every 
one of them who spoke are listed as the biggest spenders in the House 
over the last 5, 10, 15, 20 years.
  We have a national debt that is reaching $5 trillion. It costs $250 
billion today just to pay the interest on it. If we allow spending to 
continue like President Clinton has asked us to do, then we would be 
paying over $350 billion in interest on that national debt. That means 
less money to help those people that really need help and less money to 
solve the Medicare problem.
  Let us get this House in order. Let us be fiscally responsible. Then 
we can help those people who really need help.

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