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Jack Kingston: You cannot do that. That is why we always have to bail out Somalia, Rwanda, and all the other countries in the world…

On the recordMarch 2, 1995
You cannot do that. That is why we always have to bail out Somalia, Rwanda, and all the other countries in the world, because they mismanaged their resources. America has managed it. We have some food. You are talking about cutting, you are talking about spending the cutting. One of the things that is amazing to me is, out of the thousands of programs, they are all efficient, they are all critical, and every one of those programs has a defender in the U.S. Congress, and, yes, it is bipartisan, it is Republicans and Democrats. But the thing that we have got to do is say no. Now today, as my colleagues all know, the U.S. Senate voted down the balanced budget amendment. I believe it is a very sad day for America, because of that, because if we cannot say yes to the balanced budget amendment, I can promise my colleagues they cannot say no to voluntary fiscal restraint.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the implications of the Senate's vote against the balanced budget amendment.

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