[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 205 (Wednesday, December 20, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H15213-H15214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   REPUBLICANS' IDEA OF BALANCING THE BUDGET IS NOT BALANCED FOR ALL 
                               AMERICANS

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, could it be too much Christmas eggnog? 
Surely there must be some explanation as to why our Republican 
colleagues continue to insist on a balanced budget that has no balance 
for ordinary American families. For the privileged, of course, this 
budget is what one might call the eat-dessert-first approach.
  They propose to provide tax breaks to the privileged in our society 
and to give a lot of them out next year on election eve. They will 
actually, under 

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the budget they insist the President should capitulate to, they will 
actually solve the budget deficit by increasing the budget next year, 
not decreasing it.
  And what happens later on, after 2002? Well, within 10 years, this 
budget deficit will explode because of their tax breaks for the 
privileged, costing a total of $416 billion.
  That is no way to balance the budget. Indeed, it is the same way they 
are handling this government shutdown. Waste a billion dollars of 
taxpayers' money to pay Federal employees not to work because they do 
not like the Government. Some logic, some approach to a budget that is 
not balanced for ordinary Americans.

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