[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 207 (Friday, December 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15580]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STRENGTH TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT

  (Mrs. SMITH of Washington asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SMITH of Washington. Mr. Speaker, we know today that it is 
morally wrong to spend more than we have available, and we know it is 
wrong to tax small business out of their small business; and what they 
have left, if they survive, is taken away at retirement. It used to be 
called losing the farm for the taxes.
  We know that we have been doing this for many years, and policy 
makers in both parties have been indulging and shifting the cost to 
steal the future of America's children, and we know that that is wrong.
  Negotiating the final budget is not going to be easy. The priorities 
are difficult. But the one thing America can do, one citizen at a time, 
is that they can pray that Congress and the negotiators will have God's 
wisdom to know what is right, and then have the strength that has not 
been in other Congresses to do that right.

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