[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 10 (Thursday, January 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H841-H842]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        WHAT THE DEBATE IS ABOUT

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, any time you hear Members come to the floor 
advocating the President's balanced budget, you need to understand what 
that means. The fact is the President did as he was requested to do. He 
came in with a balanced budget that does meet balance in 7 years. The 
problem is that it always reflects his sense of priorities, and in that 
balanced budget the President has told us he wants to spend more, he 
wants to tax more, he wants bigger government, not less government, and 
that is what the debate is about. It is not whether or not you get to 
balance; it is how you get there and what you are doing, what are the 
programs and the priorities that you espouse.
  The programs and the priorities espoused by President Clinton lead us 
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more problems for the future. Why? Well, it is a little like going on a 
diet and telling yourself I am going to lose 20 pounds this month. In 
the President's budget, what he does is says we will not lose one pound 
in the first 29 days of the month, and then in the last 2 days of the 
month we will lose the other 19 pounds. In our budget, what we do is 
say let us make the hard choices up front. That is a big difference.

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