[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 183 (Friday, November 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13145]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       DEMOCRATS ASK FOR FAIRNESS

  (Mr. BRYANT of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BRYANT of Texas. The last speech, Mr. Speaker, has got to top all 
of them this morning for turning the facts on their head. The fact of 
the matter is it is the obligation of the Congress to pass a budget. We 
are 45 days late. It was supposed to be passed by October 1, and no 
budget has been sent to the President. That is why the Government is 
shut down. The President himself of course has not done it.
  The fact of the matter is that the Republicans want to send him a 
budget, although they have not done it yet, that relies upon drastic 
cuts in the Medicare insurance program for elderly people and big tax 
breaks for the wealthy to get to what they call a balanced budget.
  Everybody wants a balanced budget, but the top 1 percent have an 
average income of $600,000 a year. They get a tax cut under this 
Republican plan of $15,000 while the bottom 20 percent with an average 
income of $6,000 a year either get no tax cut or many of them get a tax 
increase of $173 a year. That is not air, and until it is fair, 
Democrats will continue to vote ``no.''

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