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Jack Kingston: “I am trying to turn this thing around. If you are trying to balance this budget and bring down that orange peak line…”

On the recordMarch 6, 1996
I am trying to turn this thing around. If you are trying to balance this budget and bring down that orange peak line, what you are trying to do is do it in 7 years. The folks back home, the business people I know say, ``Why can't you do it in 1 year?'' President Clinton as a candidate on June 4, 1992, promised to do it in 4 years. I believe we should be arguing, is 7 years not waiting too long? Should we not try to balance it in 3 or years? Indeed I supported the balance that the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Neumann] had, which was a 5-year.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Discussing budget balancing timelines during a House floor debate.

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