[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 129 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H10528]
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   REPUBLICANS SEEK COMMONSENSE REFORMS IN GOVERNMENT AND A BALANCED 
                                 BUDGET

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, let me say this to my friend from New 
Jersey. If he truly believes that information, which obviously his 
speech writer was inhaling when he wrote, then I would like to 
challenge him here and now for a debate on the environment on the House 
floor.
  Usually during special hours when the Democrats have the floor, they 
do not yield to Republicans. I will do it on my own hour to debate such 
outrageous fantasy about cuts in the environment.
  The fact is we have a $5 trillion debt. The Republican Party is 
trying to put sanity and commonsense reforms both in environmental 
legislation and in all government legislation.
  I think it is very important to cut out the rhetoric and get back to 
the fact that the children in America, a baby born today, owes $187,000 
over the next 75 years just in interest on the national debt.
  It is time for the Democratic Party to quit hiding its head inside 
the sand, quit coming out with the partisan demagoguery and face the 
real problem of trying to balance the budget and have commonsense 
reforms in government. I hope my friend will debate me.

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