[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H781]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    COMMON GROUND FOR ALL AMERICANS

  (Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas. Mr. Speaker, you can tell how big Texas is. 
My colleague is from Dallas and Plano, and I am from Houston, and we do 
have a difference of opinion once in a while.
  Mr. Speaker, the President last night reminded us that we are all 
Americans and Americans are the best when we work together. On the 
balanced budget, both parties have put forth plans that achieve a 
balanced budget by the year 2002. Right now we have enough cuts that we 
agree on to give the public the balanced budget they want. We can make 
meaningful reforms in health care so that our citizens can change jobs 
and not lose their insurance, and we can also protect Medicare and 
education funding without tax cuts to have that balanced budget.
  The President was right on mark when he warned us not to play 
politics with the full faith and credit of the United States. The 
public wants us to address the issues of lost jobs, conditions in our 
schools and the kind of country we leave for our children, and as the 
President said, we have to do it together. It is time we find that 
common ground for all of us Americans.

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