Daniel Schaefer: “Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the Hefley amendment to H.R. 2442, and I want to commend my friend, the…”

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of the Hefley amendment to H.R. 2442, and I want to commend my friend, the gentleman from Colorado, for leading the fight for eliminating this agency. Despite the optimistic reports from the administration, our deficit is still going up. Four hundred billion dollars by the year 2000 is projected. Congress should be looking for ways to eliminate inefficiency and wasteful programs, not reauthorizing them after 10 years. Congress need look no further than the EDA to begin to find an appropriate place in which to eliminate a few dollars from this budget that we are not going to be able to afford in a number of years. Let me also add at this time that I support the amendments reducing or eliminating the funding for the Appalachian Regional Commission. This is a good example of why the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Penny] and I introduced the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1994. We can go on and on and on trying to eliminate certain programs to try to cut the deficit, and we always lose. We do always lose, so that is why we have combined all these cuts, $550 billion over a 5-year period, so we could vote up or down on one piece of legislation, and this exact amendment was included in the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1994.”