John Shadegg: “I take the strong statement we just heard as an endorsement of the RSC budget. He talked about the budget you are…”

“I take the strong statement we just heard as an endorsement of the RSC budget. He talked about the budget you are proposing will increase the deficit. In fact, he wasn't talking about the RSC budget. Indeed it will produce $392 billion in net deficit reduction. I rise in strong support of the Contract with America Renewed budget and compliment the gentleman from Texas for his hard work on this budget. This budget is a reasoned and responsible budget based on the Contract With America budget that I proudly voted for in 1995 and that the chairman of the House Budget Committee who sits here tonight also voted for, along with 108 other Republicans and two Democrats. And I certainly hope that tonight they will once again vote for this budget. Mr. Chairman, when the Republicans were entrusted with the majority in 1994, we made a number of promises to the American people, but none of them was more important than our promise and nor more critical than our promise to the American people to shrink the size and the scope of the Federal Government, to have it tax less, spend less and interfere in our lives less; and, Mr. Chairman, it is time to keep that promise. As the accompanying chart shows, in the time period from 1995 to 2005, Federal spending has increased at three times the pace of the average family income. Mr. Chairman, that simply is not tolerable. This chart shows it. In that time period the average family income has gone up by 8.2 percent.…”