[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 109 (Tuesday, July 29, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H5928]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WINNERS IN BALANCED BUDGET AGREEMENT

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Madam Speaker, and my colleagues, it is really going to 
happen, the first balanced budget in a generation, the first tax cut 
from Washington in 16 years, and a program to strengthen and preserve 
Medicare.
  Members from both sides of the political aisle worked together; the 
White House worked with us honestly to bring about these achievements. 
So there are a lot of people going to be claiming credit today and a 
lot of people claiming who the winners really are. The real winners in 
this agreement are the American people, the American people who sent us 
here to do their bidding and to do their work.
  Over the last 2\1/2\ years, it has not just been this balanced budget 
and this tax cut and this preservation of Medicare that we have 
accomplished, it has been welfare reform, a generation of politicians 
trying to come to grips with this issue, illegal immigration reform, 
health care reform, elimination of over 300 Federal Government 
programs, saving over $50 billion.
  This Congress continues to do what the American people are demanding, 
a smaller, less costly, less intrusive government here in Washington, 
moving power back home so Americans can make more decisions about their 
own lives.

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