[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TIME TO BALANCE BUDGET IS NOW

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, we have heard about CR's and debt limits, 
all of this minutia, and we all know this is not what this fight is 
about. It is about whether we are going to leave for our children and 
theirs a better future than what our parents left for us.
  Each succeeding generation in America has left for its children and 
its grandchildren a brighter future for them, and what are we leaving 
for our children? Five trillion dollars' worth of debt. That is what we 
are doing.
  We have heard every excuse in the world why we cannot balance the 
budget for 30 years. We have heard every Washington gimmick used why we 
cannot do it. The time is now. We are going to balance the budget to 
save the future for my girls, my two teenage girls, and every kid of 
America.

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