On the recordJanuary 3, 1996
This place cracks me up sometimes. I sometimes feel like I walk through a mirror and I am going to meet the Mad Hatter. We hear bleeding heart after bleeding heart. We hear all these stories. It is this simple. The President said he would sign a contract to balance the budget in 7 years, scored by CBO. We said fine. If you do that, there is no problem, we will keep going, and Government will be open. Now the President has not done that, so all the rest of this rhetoric is rhetoric. As soon as the President decides to keep his word, that is what has got to be understood, Mr. Speaker, is that he has to keep his word, and his word was that he would sign a balanced budget scored by CBO. I hope he keeps his word soon.
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