Jeff Miller: “Mr. Chairman, let me repeat what the Speaker said earlier. This amendment and each of the amendments that we will be…”

“Mr. Chairman, let me repeat what the Speaker said earlier. This amendment and each of the amendments that we will be debating this evening are agreement-breakers. If any one of them passes, it is going to violate the agreement that we have between the budget committees. The resolution was passed by both budget committees in the House and Senate, and the administration. So it is essential that we work together, Democrats and Republicans, to defeat this amendment. Let me remind everybody what our budget resolution is all about. First of all, it balances in 5 years. In 5 years, without any gimmicks, without any smoke and mirrors, we are going to balance it. It does not have the trigger that was talked about in previous budgets by the President, that would automatically change tax cuts or change spending. It is a real budget with real numbers, with conservative estimates on economic growth of 2.1 percent a year. We are growing at a much faster rate than that. I think in all probability we are going to balance the budget in fewer than 5 years. But with conservative economic projections, we are going to have a true, honest balanced budget by the year 2002. This budget that was passed by the Committee on the Budget has permanent tax relief for America's families.”