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Nick Lampson: “Mr. Speaker, if this is the session when we are going to agree to do a balanced budget plan, we need to see activity…”

On the recordMarch 5, 1997
Mr. Speaker, if this is the session when we are going to agree to do a balanced budget plan, we need to see activity from the other side of the aisle. They have criticized the President's plan. They have even called on the President to submit a second budget plan before submitting their own first budget on the most important issue this Congress will debate. I and many of my freshman colleagues are still waiting to see the evidence of the bipartisanship that we have heard so much about. I join the Democratic leadership today in asking the majority party to join the budget process by presenting their plan. There are only 13 legislative days left until the April 15 budget deadline.
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Nick Lampson
Texas

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Addressing the need for bipartisan action on the budget during a House floor speech.

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