[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H308-H309]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE WAY TO OPEN THE GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. MANZULLO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANZULLO. Mr. Speaker, the House has passed several measures 
today. Let me concentrate on one that is very, very simple. It extends 
to the President an opportunity to do something historic. We are saying 
very simply: If by January 26 the President of the United States 
submits a balanced budget in 7 years, scored by the neutral 
Congressional Budget Office, then we will agree to open up the entire 
Government 100 percent.
   Mr. Speaker, that means at that point that both parties have their 
budget on the table or in the process of 

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negotiating. That is the bottom line. That is how simple it is. That is 
how to reduce a day of very complicated transactions into one line. 
Give us a balanced budget agreement or proposal scored by the neutral 
Congressional Budget Office and we will agree to open up the 
Government.

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