[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H125]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    AMERICA WANTS A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, there you have it, we have been 
called gruesome, we have been called extreme, we have been called 
radical, we have been called just about every name in the book because 
we want to do something so extreme and so radical as to balance the 
budget using honest numbers.
  People back home are saying to me, ``Dave, if you can't do it, who 
will do it? And if we can't do it now, when will we do it?''
  The time has arrived. The President is vetoing all of these bills 
that we put before him because we do not spend as much money as he 
wants to spend. Those are the bottom-line issues in his vetoes. He 
wants to spend more money than we want to spend.
  We want to balance the budget. He has not presented a budget that 
balances. He has not presented to us a budget that, when we give it to 
the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office, and they analyze the numbers, 
it does not come to balance in 7 years. The American public wants the 
budget balanced.

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