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Jon Fox: “This is the first year since 1969 that we have actually had a balanced budget here in Congress, and we did it without…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 1995
This is the first year since 1969 that we have actually had a balanced budget here in Congress, and we did it without having, as you say, even though we passed the balanced budget amendment and it has not been passed in the Senate, we did not wait for that to happen, we made sure we moved along. I thank the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Kingston] for his leadership in allowing us to move along in this dialog in the progress of reducing the cost of the Federal Government.
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Jon Fox
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Discussing the achievement of a balanced budget in Congress.

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