[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12204]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          BALANCING THE BUDGET

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Madam Speaker, the Washington Post was just right this 
morning when they said the real issue is balancing the budget, and this 
is the time to decide.
  Are we going to continue adding to a $5 trillion debt that smothers 
the economy and drives up interest rates and imperils our children's 
future or do we want to exercise some fiscal responsibility, trim the 
growth in spending and cut taxes?
  The choice to me is clear. We cannot continue business as usual. We 
are going to balance this budget. That is what we were sent here to do.
  I still have some hope, perhaps naive, that the President will stop 
his obstruction and begin to work with us. It was only a month or so 
ago that the President again conceded that the balance budget goal is 
necessary and essential. It was only a few weeks ago that he confessed 
that he had raised taxes too much.
  If the President believes his own words have any meaning at all, he 
ought to work with us to cut taxes and cut spending and, yes, let us 
balance the budget. Today would be a good time for the President to 
start to work with us to do just that.

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