[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H192]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




WE DO NOT NEED 21 REPUBLICANS, WE NEED 1 PRESIDENT TO OFFER A BALANCED 
                                 BUDGET

  (Mr. GUNDERSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUNDERSON. Mr. Speaker, we do not need 21 Republicans. We need 
one President, just one President that will offer this country a 
balanced budget. That is all it takes, just one President to keep his 
word to offer a balanced budget, and we will get on with the process, 
the Government will run, and we will get this thing solved.
  As my colleagues know, the fact is the President signed into law a 
continuing resolution. That continuing resolution committed that we 
would have by January 3 of this year a bipartisan balanced budget 
agreement. The President has not even submitted a balanced budget 
proposal.
  People wonder why negotiations are not going anywhere. How can they 
go anywhere? We do not have anything to negotiate. We have no idea 
where the President stands on taxes. We have no idea where the 
President stands on domestic spending. We have no idea how the 
President suggests we ought to achieve a balanced budget. He says he is 
for one, and that is good, so let us see it.
  Mr. Speaker, my colleagues do not need 21 Republicans. They need one 
President to offer a balanced budget.

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