[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 16 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S888]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               THE BUDGET

  Mr. BOND. I say to my good friend, the distinguished chairman of the 
Budget Committee, perhaps because of the fact that the President 
submitted five budgets last year, the White House sent down five 
budgets--the last one did not even pass the smile test--they may have 
lost their enthusiasm.
  I certainly do share the concerns expressed by the Senator from New 
Mexico. We had the last budget, I guess it was called No. 5, that 
purported to reach balance by making somewhere between 90 and 95 
percent of the cuts in appropriated accounts in the 6th and 7th years. 
I traveled around my State the last couple of weeks and asked how many 
people believed the budget was honest if you said you would get to 
balance by making all the cuts in the 6th and 7th years. That is one of 
the best laugh lines around. I should have been using that in one of 
the roasts we had in town because that, from the commonsense folks I 
talk to, draws that kind of response.

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