[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12138]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              HOW TO ACHIEVE A BALANCED BUDGET IN 7 YEARS

  (Mr. SMITH of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, if honesty were the high road, 
too often in this debate we are at a much lower level, traveling the 
course of what happens to the future of this country.
  Do we want a balanced budget in 7 years or less or do we not and, if 
we do, how should we try to change politicians' behavior around to 
achieve that goal?
  What we have done in this case is try to say that we are going to use 
the continuing resolution, that we are going to try to use the 
temporary increase in the debt ceiling, to change what politicians have 
been doing since the 1920's, and we are actually in some areas going to 
cut some of the funds that have been going into some of those 
discretionary programs.
  In Medicare, it is a farce. It comes as a strong untruth between what 
the President and the Democrats in the Senate have already suggested of 
the changes and where we end up with Medicare reform.

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