[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 183 (Friday, November 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13147]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               ALL WE ASK

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, 1,262 days ago, President Bill 
Clinton promised a 5-year plan to balance the budget. Two unbalanced 
budgets later, the President still has presented no balanced budget 
plan.
  Tody, much of the Federal Government is shut down because the 
President will not keep his promise. He has closed the Government 
because he opposes any plan to balance the budget over 7 years.
  We do not ask the President to adopt our Balanced Budget Act of 1995. 
We do not ask the President to accept our proposal to save Medicare 
from bankruptcy. We do not ask the President to support our plan to 
make regulations more cost-effective.
  We do not ask the President to approve our plan to return osme of his 
huge tax increase to the American families who earned the money in the 
first place. We do not ask the President to adopt a single provision of 
our balanced budget plan.
  All we ask is that the President kept his word. We ask the President 
to commit to balance the budget in 7 years using honest numbers. That 
is all. And that is not too much to ask for the American people.

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