[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 86 (Wednesday, June 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6186]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      FAILURE ON BUDGET RESOLUTION

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, yesterday this failed Congress failed to 
act on the national budget resolution. Apparently the budget resolution 
advanced by the Gingrich leadership was so bad that even some of our 
Republican colleagues could not stomach it.
  In fact, I quote from a leaflet that one of them sent out, Do we want 
the deficit to go back up, the budget resolution conference report 
shows the budget deficit going back up again, reversing the gains made 
in the past 3 years.
  He could have added, under President Clinton. And he is exactly 
right. Their resolution increases the budget deficit, and he urges the 
House to reject the conference report.
  These are the same Republicans who in the name of deficit reduction 
said they were willing to cut Medicare, the same Republicans who in the 
name of deficit reduction shut down the Government with their antics of 
last year. Yet now that we have an election coming along, they are 
willing to let the budget deficit soar.
  Those of us who backed the conservative coalition budget have a 
better way. Balance the budget now without unbalancing the budgets of 
American working families and without wrecking Medicare.

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