Willie Hefner: “Where is your balanced budget?'' That is a nice speech, Mr. Speaker. It should make the news tonight. Mr. Speaker, I…”

“Where is your balanced budget?'' That is a nice speech, Mr. Speaker. It should make the news tonight. Mr. Speaker, I just want to make one point. My friend from Texas in his closing remarks, he said the President puts a budget on the table and we can negotiate but what we are hearing coming out of negotiations, the conditions are set down that the Speaker has said that he will not let a budget come to the floor here that cannot get 218 Republican votes. {time} 1730 The majority leader says that there is no budget going to pass this House if the taxes are changed. So some negotiations you have got there. And the gentleman from Texas says, ``Mr. President, if you do not do what we want to do on our terms, we will shut the country down again.'' So what we are going to do, what we have here, you are going to have a recess where the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich] can go raise a lot of money and we are going to have the people dispersing, going on trips and what have you, and saying we have put the ball in the President's court, and then, ``If you don't do it like we want it, we will shut the Government down and put people out of work and inconvenience the American public,'' and ``that ain't right.''”