[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H16951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            BALANCING FEDERAL BUDGET IS FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE

  (Mr. RIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, let me just point out to my colleagues that 
the gentleman from Illinois who just spoke, when he had an opportunity 
out on this House floor to vote for a balanced budget resolution, 
failed to do so. He voted against the Republican version of a balanced 
budget 7-year plan; he voted against the Democrat substitute. In fact, 
Mr. Speaker, when the Democrats offered their version of a balanced 
budget plan out here on the floor, only 72 out of 199 Democrats voted 
for it.
  We are the party that is trying to be fiscally responsible. We are 
putting forward a plan to balance the budget in 7 years by limiting the 
growth, the increase in Federal spending, to 3 percent per year. We 
want the President to affirm his willingness to meet us halfway and 
honestly balance the budget and work with, not against, this Congress.

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