[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11981]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WE MUST BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, with the rising national debt, with the 
Government going out of control, with Washington micromanaging 
everyone's life, it is right and it is proper and it is time to get our 
house in order. We must balance this budget.
  I hear time and time again from this side of the aisle that we are 
doing it on the backs of children and seniors and so forth and national 
parks. If my colleagues want to play that kind of scare tactic game, I 
guess that is the way. As my colleagues know, we cannot convince people 
not to do that, but the time has come to be responsible.
   Mr. Speaker, we are increasing payments on Medicare from $4,800 to 
$6,700 per senior. On AFDC we are going up 39 percent, from $89 to $124 
million.
  Our balanced budget, which the Democrats claim cuts and decimates and 
destroys, actually increases spending over a period of time about $3 
trillion. It is a reduction in the growth, but it balances the budget 
in a 7-year period of time, and that, Mr. Speaker, is what needs to be 
done to bring our financial picture in order.

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