[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 67 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S4987]
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                         A BALANCED BUDGET PLAN

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, the Senator from Montana, in his 
presentation, said that he would like the Senator from North Dakota to 
vote for a balanced budget plan. I do not know where the Senator from 
Montana has been. Not only have I voted for a balanced budget plan, I 
have presented three in the U.S. Senate in the last year.
  I presented the fair share balanced budget plan last year; got 39 
votes. It was the most ambitious deficit reduction plan that has been 
presented by anybody in either House--got 39 votes in the U.S. Senate.
  No. 2, I cosponsored with Senator Simon last year the commonsense 
balanced budget plan. We got 19 votes in the U.S. Senate for that plan. 
That plan was the second most ambitious deficit reduction plan that 
anybody has presented in the U.S. Congress.

  Third, I have been involved in the centrist coalition, which will 
have a substitute to the Republican plan that we will offer this week, 
which is a 7-year balanced budget plan that 22 of us have put 
together--11 Democrats and 11 Republicans. Not only have I voted for 
balanced budget plans, I have helped author them, or in some cases 
authored them in their entirety. I just want to set the record 
straight.
  I thank my colleague from North Dakota for this opportunity to 
respond.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Coats). The Senator from North Dakota.

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