[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 181 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12356]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IT IS TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT BALANCING THE FEDERAL 
                                 BUDGET

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, I am a little troubled by some of President 
Clinton's comments the last couple of days. I have been listening to 
the White House press conferences, which seem to occur about every 20 
minutes, and I can keep hearing the President claim that he wants to 
balance the budget.
  Now, that is interesting, because the budget that he sent to Congress 
called for $200 billion annual deficits into the foreseeable future and 
added $1 trillion to the national debt over the next 5 years. His so-
called balanced budget was so unbalanced, the Democrats in the House 
refused to offer it. In the Senate, where it was introduced, it 
received not one single vote.
  Now every time we turn on the television we see a somber President 
Clinton proclaiming that theoretically he supports some balanced budget 
at some time, just not this particular balanced budget.
  Baloney. The President could care less about balancing the budget. He 
should join us and we should work together to finally balance the 
budget for this country.

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