[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 1 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H9-H10]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  REPUBLICANS WILL BALANCE THE BUDGET

  (Mr. COX of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House 

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for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, as our colleagues know, we have 
done our job here. We did it last summer. We passed all our 
appropriations bills.
  The truth is that the President has now vetoed appropriations bills 
that would keep our parks open, appropriations bills that would keep 
our prisons and the guards paid. We passed not only a balanced budget 
amendment to the Constitution, by a two-thirds vote here, which would 
have kicked in in 7 years, but failing the one vote necessary to get a 
two-thirds margin for a constitutional amendment in the Senate, we, the 
House and Senate together, passed the Balanced Budget Act to balance 
the budget in 7 years, and the President has vetoed that.
  Then we passed a resolution that the President signed that said you, 
Mr. President, will come up with a balanced budget, scored by the CBO, 
in 7 years, and he has not done that.
  There is a good reason that now we have this seeming impasse. It is 
that the President has not done his job. We will continue to do ours 
and we will balance the budget.

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