[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 182 (Thursday, November 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13038]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         TIME FOR THE PRESIDENT TO COMMIT TO A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. NORWOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. NORWOOD. Mr. Speaker, today we will ask only one thing of the 
President. We will ask that he agree to work with us to balance the 
budget in 7 years using the numbers of a nonpartisan Congressional 
Budget Office. It is a basic, simple request, but for some reason he 
seems very afraid of this commitment.
  Mr. Speaker, the President said last night he thinks it will hurt 
America. Fortunately, some of us know better than that. The hundreds of 
people calling my office certainly know better than that. They know 
that the best thing we can do for this country is to make an 
unmistakable commitment to balance this budget.
  That is what we will do. No matter what the President says, no matter 
how long it takes, we are going to balance this budget in 7 years, and 
we will do it by controlling spending, saving Medicare, and giving the 
hard-working people of America back some of the money that was stolen 
from them by the 103d Congress. The people of the 10th District have my 
word on this.

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