Joe Pitts: “Mr. Speaker, my friend on the other side of the aisle has the gall to criticize Republicans for not having a balanced…”

“Mr. Speaker, my friend on the other side of the aisle has the gall to criticize Republicans for not having a balanced budget yet. I would like to ask them where is their balanced budget. The President knows how difficult it is to produce a balanced budget. In fact he could not do it. There are no tough decisions in President Clinton's proposal, and in fact he inflates the debt by $1.2 trillion by 2002. His spending cuts would not occur until he leaves office, his tax cuts are temporary. The Republican Congress has been trying to negotiate a real balanced budget, and we will do that.”