[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS MUST REPRESENT THE CHILDREN

  (Mr. SHAYS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHAYS. Mr. Speaker, we have three primary objectives. One is to 
get our financial house in order and balance our Federal budget; the 
second is to save our trust funds from insolvency, and ultimate 
bankruptcy, particularly Medicare; and our third objective is to 
transform our caretaking social and corporate welfare state into what I 
would call a caring opportunity society.
  Our country has grown into debt from $430 billion since the Vietnam 
War to $4,900 billion. That has got to end. Adults, Members of 
Congress, are elected by adults to represent the children, and that is 
what we are about to do.

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