[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11835]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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               PRESIDENT SHOULD SIGN THE BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. TATE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TATE. Mr. Speaker, the voters of the Ninth Congressional District 
have sent a clear message to me. They want less taxes, and less 
government, and less spending, and that is exactly what the Republican 
Congress is doing. We are going to balance the budget for the first 
time in a generation, the second time in my lifetime, which will lower 
interest rates and create more jobs for the people of Washington State. 
We will reform the welfare system which has been a failed system by 
anyone's standards by increasing personal responsibility. We will save 
Medicare which President Clinton's own board of trustees said was going 
broke by preserving, protecting, and strengthening Medicare by giving 
seniors more choices and weeding out waste, fraud, and abuse and giving 
it more competition. We will also provide tax relief for working 
families in the form of a $500-per-child family tax credit.
  Mr. Speaker, we challenge the President to join with us, and balance 
the budget, and work for these types of reforms. Mr. President, no more 
gimmicks. Mr. President, no more tricks. It is time to do the right 
thing for America's future. Sign the balanced budget.

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