Taxpayers deserve to expect that every cent of hard-earned money is spent on quality medical care for deserving patients.

The line item veto gives the President a vital new tool to ensure that our tax dollars are well spent.

We've worked hard to cut the deficit and to ensure that our tax dollars are used wisely, carefully and effectively.

We've got the appropriate commitment of personnel and money.

I am also pleased that the bill provides a $1.4 billion increase in funding for anti-drug programs.

I herewith report three new deferrals and one revised deferral, totaling $3.6 billion.

I am for balancing the budget in 7 years, but I want to protect the fundamental priorities of the American people.

The deficit in fiscal year '95 is $164 billion, cut almost in half in just 3 years.

You just remember one thing: Not one red cent that senior citizens pay in medical bills will go into that Trust Fund.

We ought to pass a budget this time that will bring our books into balance by a date certain.

I have shown my commitment to reducing the deficit and to investing in our future.

My Fiscal Year 1996 Budget requests $10.4 billion in supplemental appropriations for the current fiscal year.

We passed an economic package that's bringing the deficit down by more than $600 billion.

I do not believe we can afford to go back to the days of exploding deficits.

We can't walk away from it. It's killing the budget.

This would undermine the principle that new mandatory spending should be offset by reductions in existing mandatory spending.

It is costing more tax dollars and robbing us of taxes that would come to America's treasury.

It is important that the debt, as a percentage of our annual income, go down.