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Newt Gingrich: I want to let the House know that the House is not only working on a balanced budget for America's future, but that we…

On the recordMay 16, 1997
I want to let the House know that the House is not only working on a balanced budget for America's future, but that we are also making this information available through the Internet, so that every citizen, including Members of the House and their staffs, including the news media, including students, will be able to access this. I am going to mention this, and I hope that we will be able to work through the House Information System and with C-SPAN to actually get this put up on the screen a little bit. But I wanted to start the day today by indicating how different we are going to be. If you access through the Internet on a home page which will be labeled 'A Balanced Budget for America's Future,' it is at Hillsource.house.gov/budget.html. I realize people cannot pick all that up. I will repeat it one time. But the point I am making is that all the talk about getting access to materials, all the talk about Washington lobbyists, we are making available today information on the budget. It is our hope that we are going to be able to make available by the end of today all of the balanced budget documents.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Announcing the availability of balanced budget information online for public access.

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