[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H11]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GETTING THE JOB DONE

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, we have got our job done. We as a 
Congress have passed the first balanced budget in over a generation. A 
man had not walked on the Moon the last time this institution had the 
discipline to balance the budget. We have done that now.
  If we want to know about how big our national debt is, consider this 
in this holiday season. If we made a million dollars every day from the 
day Jesus Christ was born until today, we still would not have enough 
money to pay off our Federal debt. The time to balance the budget is 
now. Let us forget the demagoguery. Let us forget the half-truths. Let 
us instead be driven by these words that were written in the 1800's: 
Ask not what your age wants but what it needs, not what it will reward 
but what without which it cannot be saved; and that go and do.
  That is what we are going to do. We are going to balance this budget.

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