[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15099]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PASS BALANCED BUDGET NOW

  (Mr. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday by a vote of 351 to 40, with 133 
Democrats joining a unanimous vote on the part of the majority, we 
passed a resolution reaffirming our commitment to a balanced budget in 
7 years using honest numbers.
  Well, today we are going to have the second part of the story here. 
We are going to bring up the President's budget for a vote. We are 
going to find out just how unanimous the support is among Republicans 
and Democrats to vote for the President's budget. It is time that we 
got the basic issues here, and that is do we really support a balanced 
budget in 7 years?
  It has been 12,093 days since the President promised us a 5-year 
balanced budget. It is time for Republicans and Democrats who agree on 
saving this country for our children and our children's future to get 
together and make the President as relevant as he has been all through 
the 1995, which is irrelevant, and pass a balanced budget over his 
veto.

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