[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 55 (Thursday, April 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3828]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    AMERICANS HAVE WON A VICTORY WITH REGARD TO BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, the American people have won a victory with 
reference to these budget negotiations. We are reversing the deficit 
spiral under Republican administrations in the 1980's. We are making 
continued progress toward balancing the budget. It is, as my Republican 
colleagues have said this morning, a historic moment. It is just that 
they miss what the historic moment is all about. For, as my colleagues 
can see, all of this could have been accomplished last year without the 
Gingrich goofs, without the Government shutdowns that cost the American 
people $1.5 billion, without the pain that that caused people all over 
this country.
  Today we have achieved this negotiation without taking cops off the 
street, as they wanted to, without savaging the School Lunch Program, 
without wrecking the environment. We have accomplished this because the 
American people have spoken out and said they have had enough of 
extremism. We Democrats did not have a majority of votes to accomplish 
this, but we had a majority of right on our side, and thanks to the 
involvement of the American people we have said no to the Gingrich 
extremisms and achieved a victory.

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