[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 64 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4657]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            SAME OLD BUDGET

  (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 gentlewoman from Texas is right. It is 
the same old song. As the Four Tops would say, ``It's a different verse 
since you've been gone.'' That is what this budget is. The Republicans 
have come back, and they have taken their old last year's budget. What 
it did to seniors, what it did to schoolchildren, and they put a smiley 
face on it. But it is the same old bad budget.
  Mr. Speaker, for months they have tried to undermine the Federal 
commitment to education. On Sunday, the majority leader of the 
Republican Party even suggested that we compensate for a revenue loss 
by cutting education. It is as if Marie Antoinette were telling the 
peasants let them eat cake, but he says to students in America, let 
them pump gas.
  We need more opportunities in this country, not less. Is it any 
wonder that a Republican Party that cannot seem to learn its own 
lessons wants everyone else in America to pay more for learning.

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