David Weldon: “this country is in a time of need. What our constituents need is a budget that will stay balanced. It is our obligation…”

“this country is in a time of need. What our constituents need is a budget that will stay balanced. It is our obligation to provide that for them. Mr. Speaker, the President has proposed a budget that does not offer what we have been striving for. The Congressional Budget Office has revealed that this plan would leave an unsettled deficit of at least $69 billion by the year 2002. Additionally, his Medicare proposal does not keep the Medicare plan in balance for 10 years as he has proposed. Furthermore, his savings in Medicare essentially amount to a shell game, moving expenses from part A to part B, out of the Medicare plan into the general revenue which comes out of general withholding of all taxpayers. Mr. Speaker, it is imperative that the President send us an honest balanced budget, additionally that he send us a plan that will truly achieve solvency for the Medicare plan so that our seniors will be able to have the health care that they need.”