[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H4909-H4910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                TREAT ALL SIDES FAIRLY WITH BUDGET CUTS

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, as we listen to the Republicans talk 
about budget, budget, balance the budget, balance the budget, well, we 
will get a chance today to see how serious they are, because we are 
taking up the defense bill.
  I want to tell you, as I said earlier, the British may be having 
trouble with mad cow disease, but the Republicans are having trouble 
with sacred cow disease. This is the biggest scared cow you have ever 
seen, this defense budget. Everybody else is downsizing. Not us. They 
had to add more than the President asked for. In my entire time of 
being here, I have never seen that.
  So it is very interesting that the people who on the civilian side of 
the budget say cut, cut, cut, on the defense side say spend, spend, 
spend. Even if

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they did not ask for it, spend, spend, spend. It is very hard to listen 
to those people talk about being serious about the budget. Both sides 
should be treated the same, and I hope they will.

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