[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H747]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               CONTINUE ON THE PATH TO A BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. TIAHRT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIAHRT. Mr. Speaker, we are back and we have learned a lot. No. 
1, you cannot negotiate with a ``say anything, do nothing'' President. 
It is clear that he is for big government, he is for higher taxes, and 
he is for more spending. The President condones wasteful spending in 
the Government.
  We have ``out of town'' Brown, Secretary of Commerce, who has 
overextended his travel budget. We have Secretary O'Leary, who is a 
congenital flier. We cannot keep her in town. But this is just the tip 
of the iceberg. We have massive wastes of Federal spending in our 
bureaucracy and we must downsize it.
  Mr. Speaker, we are back, we are for a balanced budget, we are on 
track to get there. We are going to continue to keep pressure on the 
administration. We are going to reform Medicaid through block grants, 
we are going to preserve and protect Medicare, and we are going to try 
to give back to American families some of what they lost in the 1990 
tax increase and in the 1993 tax increase. So we are working that hard 
and we are going to continue on that path. I appreciate my fellow 
colleagues who are going to join in that effort.

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