[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15102]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     PRESIDENT SHOULD DO WHAT ALL AMERICANS DO: BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the House passed in a very 
bipartisan fashion, with many Democrats, a sense of the Congress 
resolution to balance the budget. Earlier this year, we passed a 
balanced budget amendment with 300 votes.
  Now, apparently, Democrats too want a balanced budget. If there is 
one thing that the American people understand, it is balancing the 
budget, because they balance their budget year in and year out. They 
cannot understand why we cannot get our act together.
  Mr. Speaker, there is really only one person standing in the way of 
all of this. It is not the Democrats, because they are with us. It is 
not the Republicans, because we have got a balanced budget that we sent 
to the President. So, we ask the President to join with us; join with 
his Democrat colleagues; join with us and do what all Americans do. 
Balance the budget. Balance the Federal budget. End waste. Do what all 
Americans do. Make the ledger sheet balanced, and then we can move on 
to other important issues.

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