Timothy Roemer: “yesterday Speaker Gingrich said that he wanted to start a new idea in the House of Representatives and call it…”

“yesterday Speaker Gingrich said that he wanted to start a new idea in the House of Representatives and call it ``Correction Day.'' He said to the American Hospital Association that he wants to start 1 day a month where Congress can act on a list of ``the dumbest things the Federal Government is doing and just abolish them.'' I would give the Speaker a recommendation that starts right here in this body. I have introduced a bill, H.R. 26, that has 52 Democrats and Republicans as cosponsors on it which would say that when we as Members of Congress save money in our office accounts and return money to the U.S. Government, we can have that money go directly to the U.S. Treasury to reduce the deficit rather than back into a slush fund that is spent on other Members of Congress who exceed their mail accounts. Mr. Speaker, let us look in a bipartisan way to pass H.R. 26 and continue our efforts as we started last week to balance this budget.”