Political Quotes

“Tomorrow this body will begin debate on the Clinton budget which increases our national debt by almost $2 trillion over the next 5 years. But the balanced budget task force has an alternative to that kind of fiscal irresponsibility. Our budget, that we will present on the floor tomorrow, balances the budget within 5 years. It does that by cutting over $600 billion in Federal spending with over 500 specific cuts. It does not raise taxes, it does not touch Social Security trust funds, it does not touch earned veterans' benefits. It does restore the defense budget which was decimated by the Clinton plan. And 4 years from now we will have a balanced budget with a surplus of $5 million; in the 6th year we will have a surplus of $5 billion, and that is going to help restore fiscal responsibility to this Congress. We do it by cutting and consolidating and terminating and eliminating and privatizing and contracting out and merging and selling off many Federal portfolios. We tighten the belt of the Federal Government, which is what the American people want. I ask Members to vote for this balanced budget tomorrow.”