On the recordJune 5, 1998
Do my colleagues know why it is a doable budget, know why the Spratt substitute is a doable budget? Because it does nothing. It basically is a status quo, do nothing budget. It does nothing to suggest that the government is already too big and spends still too much. It does nothing to the number of programs that need to be consolidated. It does nothing with regard to suggesting to families and individuals and farmers and small business people that they pay enough in taxes. It does nothing for some of the waste that has been rooted out through a number of hearings, everything from $800 outhouses in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area to $584,000 homes built for park employees in Yosemite National Park to 26,000 people in 4 States receiving food stamps who are dead. So, yes, let us do nothing, let us keep the status quo, let us vote for a budget that basically says we cannot do better than that.
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