[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 32 (Thursday, March 13, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H953]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     BIPARTISANSHIP AND THE BUDGET

  (Mr. ROGAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROGAN. Mr. Speaker, last year I had the privilege of campaigning 
for the U.S. Congress as a Republican from California, and in my 
district I made no bones in going to groups where I spoke to both 
Democrats and Republicans and telling them that I intended to come to 
Congress and work in a bipartisan fashion with the President to balance 
the budget.
  A month ago I had the honor of sitting in this Chamber for the first 
time and seeing a President of the United States deliver in person a 
State of the Union message. In that message he told us and he told the 
country that he would submit and we would balance the budget. I 
believed the President then and I still believe that he intends to work 
toward that goal. But, Mr. Speaker, as we know, the budget that the 
President submitted to this Congress does not balance, and that fact 
has been made clear by the Congressional Budget Office, which is 
bipartisan.
  Mr. Speaker, yesterday we passed a resolution calling on the 
President to again submit a budget to this Congress that is balanced 
and, Mr. Speaker, as a Republican I pledge to this House and to the 
country that when the President does take that action, I will work with 
him and work with my colleagues across the aisle to ensure that we 
fulfill that obligation to the American people.

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