[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10852]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      BALANCING THE BUDGET IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO FOR OUR FUTURE

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, let me just read a quote from Ronald 
Reagan's first inaugural address:

       .  .  . The crisis we are facing today requires our best 
     effort and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to 
     believe in our capacity to perform great deeds, to believe 
     that together with God's help we can and will resolve the 
     problems which now confront us. After all, why should we not 
     believe that? We are Americans. That is just as true today as 
     it was during the first inaugural address.

  Mr. Speaker, the problem of having yearly billion-dollar deficits has 
to end. Period. The Federal Government cannot continue on the path it 
is on. This is not a Democrat or Republican problem, it is an 
everyone's problem. Congress can no longer run away from this problem 
like a bunch of scared chickens.
  Today Congress will have the opportunity to put the Federal 
Government squarely on the path to a balanced budget. It must be done. 
It is the right thing to do for America's future. It will be done 
because we are Americans.

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