Gene Taylor said "if a President, when given total authority--and this is one man who can write a budget all by himself--cannot submit a balanced budget or even a budget that is within $100 billion of being balanced, how on Earth do you think he is going to save us from ourselves? I did not come here to give my job away. I came here because I was elected to represent the people of south Mississippi and fulfill the constitutional duties that were given to me. If I had seen a record from the Presidency, from the Presidents of the United States, that had showed they are more frugal than us, I might think otherwise, but the fact is that over the past 40 years the combined Presidential budget requests have actually exceeded what this Congress has spent. I do not think those people are capable of saving us from ourselves." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 3, 1995

if a President, when given total authority--and this is one man who can write a budget all by himself--cannot submit a balanced budget or even a budget that is within $100 billion of being balanced, how on Earth do you think he is going to save us from ourselves? I did not come here to give my job away. I came here because I was elected to represent the people of south Mississippi and fulfill the constitutional duties that were given to me. If I had seen a record from the Presidency, from the Presidents of the United States, that had showed they are more frugal than us, I might think otherwise, but the fact is that over the past 40 years the combined Presidential budget requests have actually exceeded what this Congress has spent. I do not think those people are capable of saving us from ourselves.

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Gene Taylor

Mississippi

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Editor's note · Context

Criticizing presidential budget proposals and advocating for congressional responsibility.

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