[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H16950]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             PRESIDENT DOES NOT WANT TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, if the Government shuts down 
tonight, the responsibility is going to rest squarely on President 
Clinton's shoulders.
  We have sent him a debt limit increase and will send him a continuing 
resolution to keep the Government operating, but he says he will veto 
these bills. Why is the President choosing to shut down the Government? 
It is because when it comes to push to shove, he flat does not want to 
balance the budget. That is what it amounts to.
  The bills the President will veto today just require him really to 
put his money where his mouth is, do something he has never had to do, 
and that is practice what he preaches. After all his talk about 
balancing the budget and reining in the Federal spending and downsizing 
Government, today the President is going to demonstrate in no uncertain 
terms that he just does not have the courage.
  We cannot let our President's unwillingness to govern jeopardize our 
country's future.

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