[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 39 (Wednesday, March 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2470]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A DISHONEST BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman who spoke just before us 
talked with great glee about this President's balanced budget, but she 
did not tell the whole story. He also protected $7 million for foreign 
countries to teach their children how to measure rainfall and $10 
million more for the National Endowment for the Arts. He also gave us a 
budget that indeed is balanced under CBO numbers, the Congressional 
Budget Office numbers, in 7 years. It just does not cut any spending 
until the sixth year and the seventh year, after he leaves office for 
his second term.
  Does anybody in the sound of my voice believe that you can add to 
domestic spending for the next 5 years, and then hope a future Congress 
can come along and in 2 years make all the cuts that come to balance?
  This is indeed a balanced budget, a dishonest balanced budget, and a 
cynical one at that.

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