[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11834]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       THE CONTINUING RESOLUTION

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am glad my colleague from 
California, as a new Member of this House, talked about the balanced 
budget. But in 1992, under the Republican leadership, we had a $290 
billion deficit. And last year, under this current year, we have $164 
billion. It is going in the right direction without cutting Medicare 
and Medicaid.
  It is now November 8, 40 days after the beginning of the fiscal year 
and only 5 days before the current continuing resolution expires. And 
what have we seen under this revolutionary Congress? We only have two 
bills that have been signed into appropriations bills, 40 days late for 
our fiscal year.
  Is that fiscal responsibility? We are aiming for default by the 
extremist Republican majority. In fact, only two bills at 5 percent of 
the Federal discretionary funding have been approved. What we are 
seeing is gambling with the stability of our economic system in the 
United States based on the Republican majority.
  They are too busy cutting Medicare, cutting education funding to make 
government do its job, and that is really to have a balanced budget.

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