[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H11-H12]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     REGARDING THE BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. DELLUMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
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minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DELLUMS. Mr. Speaker, in the context of this discussion regarding 
the balanced budget, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle seek 
three objectives: One, to change the nature, function, and role of the 
Federal Government in people's lives; two, to significantly reduce the 
size of the Federal Government; and, three, to shrink the revenues 
designed to carry out the purpose, the business of Federal governance. 
Nothing can be more fundamental and basic than that, to change the 
definition of the role of the Federal Government in people's lives.
  It would seem to me if this struggle is that fundamental, then you do 
not solve that problem by creating the artificial crises of shutting 
down the Government. Dignify your own fundamental struggle here, allow 
the workers to get back to work, allow the Federal Government to 
function, and within the context of the processes that are designed for 
us to deal with these problems, let us address it that way. This is a 
fundamental basic struggle here. It is not a testosterone test. It is 
not an ego trip. It is a fundamental discussion. We ought to have it.

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