[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H126]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     HOUSE-PASSED BUDGET INCREASES ANNUAL OPERATING DEFICIT IN 1996

  (Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, I wish a couple of my 
colleagues would take the time to read the report from the 
Congressional Budget Office that says that the budget that has passed 
this House increases the annual operating deficit for this Nation in 
1996. It does not decrease it, it increases it.
  Even when they cook the numbers, it increases the annual operating 
deficit by $7 billion. You do not balance the budget by taking your 
first step backward.
  The second thing I would like to do is commend those wonderful men 
and women who work for our Nation's veterans hospitals, taking care of 
the people who came home from our wars in a situation much worse than 
they left, who are working for reduced pay. I want to tell them it is 
my deepest regret that they are not being fully compensated for what 
they have done. We have tried three times on the House floor on the 
Democratic side to bring a budget bill straight to the floor under an 
open rule that if people wanted to amend, they could, and three times 
now the Speaker of the House has ruled that would not happen. We will 
continue to work in your best interests.

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