[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 23 (Thursday, February 27, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H678]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            PASS BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR OUR CHILDREN

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, I love children. I have two children 
myself, and I enjoy listening to politicians try to use children for 
their own political gain, especially when it smacks of hypocrisy. Some 
politicians in Washington love children so much that they go to them 
first when they want to steal their money. This country is in debt to 
the tune of $5.5 trillion and guess who Senator Kerrey's commission, a 
Democrat, said was going to be paying for that $5 trillion?

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  Senator Kerrey's commission says by the year 2020, because of the 
$5.5 trillion deficit, our children will pay 89 percent of every dollar 
they earn to taxes to the Federal Government.
  Now if these people really love children, they can pass a balanced 
budget amendment, get rid of Potomac fever; stop promising one thing at 
home, coming up to Washington DC, doing something else, and start 
allowing our children to have the same American dream that each one of 
us was able to enjoy.
  Mr. Speaker, we need to pass it now.

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