[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 200 (Friday, December 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14933-H14934]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       TIME TO BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, it was very interesting to hear my good 
friend from Texas get up and rant and rail against this fact. This is 
not a parliamentary inquiry, but this is a point of fact:
  If anyone in the minority, if anyone in America can show us how going 
from $4,800 this year per beneficiary for Medicare to $7,100 in the 
year 2002 is a cut, come collect the check. Because the fact is the 
figures do not lie. Simple math tells the truth. And simple justice 
compels us to say to my good friend from Texas, and indeed to the 
American people that we should join hands and balance this budget 
because our children and the American people deserve no less.
  Sure you can try to change the subject, but it does not change the 
agenda for America's future. It is time to make a difference, put this 
partisanship aside and build a constructive future as we confront the 
next century.

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                         A MILLION-DOLLAR CLAIM

  (Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I hope my good friend from 
Arizona and others will be here this afternoon when the House gives 5-
minute speeches when I will display and walk the people of America step 
by step through and disprove Mr. Barbour's claim.
  The first sentence is what I am going to disprove: ``In November 1995 
the U.S. House and Senate passed a balanced budget bill.''
  They did not. The law of this Nation says we can only allocate funds 
for 1 year. And the funds that are allocated for next year are 
projecting a $270 billion annual operating deficit, of which $100 
billion will be stolen from the trust funds.
  I again want to encourage people to pay attention to this. I am not 
going to ask for the money for myself. But, J.D., you can fill in the 
University of Southern Mississippi development fund in that space there 
because I will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that this statement is 
false and I expect my fellow Mississippian, Mr. Barbour, to be a man of 
his word.

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