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meanwhile, those equal cuts that went

to the rich means they are going to get

$20,000 more in their pocket per year.

That is not a fair deal. I was accused

of being a socialist on this floor the

other day by a Member, and I must say

what I want to say is the other side in

their budget is socialism for the rich.

No one has ever seen socialism for the

rich. But this is a whole new Republican program, socialism for the rich so

they can get richer. Those are the cuts

that help them.

Well, I am not that kind of socialist,

I can tell you, and I will make it very,

very clear over and over again. That is

not my program. I think Government

is there to help people who need help,

to teach them to fish, to get them on

their legs and get them going, and I

think the time has come and the American people have figured it out.

WE HAVE TO MAKE RESPONSIBLE

fCHOICES

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

the Speaker’s announced policy of May

12, 1995, the gentleman from Arizona

[Mr. HAYWORTH] is recognized during

morning business for 3 minutes.

Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the words

of my colleague from Colorado, and

would propose to offer to the American

people, Mr. Speaker, that we see another sterling, yes, even a textbook example of why there is a new minority

in the Congress of the United States on

that side of the aisle. It is fascinating

to listen to this almost instant revisionism of history, socialism for the

wealthy.

Well, that is a very interesting point

of view, and I guess in terms of playground name calling, that certainly

may have some validity in a nonsensical sort of way. One analog that does

pertain, however, is the notion of the

American family being put into a cage.

The American family has been

enslaved, but it has been enslaved by

those proponents of big Government

who believe that always there must be

tax increases, that always people need

to take out their wallets and give more

and more money to Washington. And

the facts speak for themselves.

Mr. Speaker, it is a well-known fact

that in 1948 the average American family sent 3 percent of its income, the average American family of four paid 3

percent of its income in taxes to the

Federal Government. And yet by 1994,

on the heels of the largest tax increase

in American history, the average

American family paid 24.5 percent of

its income in taxes to the Federal Government. And this was not class warfare, this is virtually everybody, with a

quantum leap in what they had to pay

to the Federal Government. And now,

fresh on the heels of a nonsensical, dishonest school lunch scare program, the

new minority, the guardians of the old

order, are trying to scare seniors and

students.

The fact is that we are not taking

away student loans of the new majority, but it is also the fact if we do nothing, if we allow the status quo to persist, there may not be university systems, there may not be a constitutional Republic in 5 to 10 years to have

a worthy educational system to begin

with.

To those who would always use the

scare tactics about school lunches and

claim cuts when there are increases,

let me simply say this: The fact is we

have to make responsible choices. The

fact is that even in increasing funding

or changing the method of supplying

funding to give the money to people on

the front lines, we are transforming

what is done. We are making programs

more effective to ensure that we may

save them. And no clearer tactic or example can we see than in the realm of

Medicare, where in fact my colleague,

the preceding speaker, the gentlewoman from Colorado, tried to scare

seniors and claim there are cuts.

Friends, we are making rash on

America reasonable increases to save

the Medicare Program. We are not

making cuts. That is what we must do:

make responsible choices, not come in

and carp and complain and hope

against hope that somehow in November 1996, the voters of America will return to a bankrupt policy of always

and constant growth of Government.

The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

GUAM COMMONWEALTH

fthe Speaker’s announced policy of May

12, 1995, the gentleman from Guam [Mr.

UNDERWOOD] is recognized during

morning business for 5 minutes.

Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I

rise today to call attention to the lack

of action on the part of the administration in fulfilling its responsibility to

the people of Guam in appointing a special representative for the Guam Commonwealth.

The special representative would

complete the discussions that were initiated in 1993 with the Guam Commission on Self-Determination on the issues that the Guam Commonwealth

Act raises in defining a new relationship between the Federal Government

and the people of Guam. Congress has

deferred its action on the Guam Commonwealth Act, H.R. 1056, until the discussions with the administration’s special representative are completed.

However, it is impossible to complete

the Commonwealth discussions when

there is no one to discuss these issues

with. A dialog, by definition, requires

two parties.

Mr. I. Michael Heyman, the special

representative who began these discussions with Guam in December 1993, announced his intention to resign on February 7 of this year. We have been

waiting patiently for the administration to name a successor to Mr.

Heyman. It is now 95 days later, and we

are still waiting. There have been

hints, rumors, and meetings, but no appointment. There have been assurances

that issue this is receiving the highest

attention, but still no appointment. In

short, there has been a lot of activity,

but no action.

Mr. Speaker, the Guam Commission

on Self-Determination and I have been

extremely patient with the administration, but our patience is wearing thin.

We can understand their wanting to

find the right person for this job, but

we question this excruciating and

time-consuming scrutiny worthy of a

Supreme Court nomination. In an administration not known for its speed in

filling vacancies, we fear that the

search for Guam’s special representative is setting a new speed record, one

that we are not particularly fond of

holding. We’d rather leave the distinction of longest vacancy in the administration not filled to other more worthy

contenders.

Mr. Speaker, the quest to establish a

new self-governing Commonwealth for

the people of Guam is of paramount

importance to us, and is also important

to the national interest. A prosperous,

new Commonwealth of Guam, possessing the economic tools to secure a good

future, will serve the interests of the

United States in the western Pacific

and the Far East into the 21st century.

But none of this can happen if we don’t

conclude the ongoing discussions between Guam and the administration.

These discussions must come to some

conclusion so that Congress would have

a better sense of how the important issues of self-governance can be resolved.

I, therefore, call on the administration to name a special representative

for Guam Commonwealth, and to resume the important discussions that

have been delayed for the past 3

months. And I again remind the administration that time is running short to

complete this process within a timeframe that allows the 104th Congress to

also begin its important review of the

Guam Commonwealth Act.

FISCAL YEAR 1996 BUDGET

RESOLUTION

fThe SPEAKER pro tempore. Under

the Speaker’s announced policy of May

12, 1995, the gentleman from Colorado

[Mr. ALLARD] is recognized during

morning business for 5 minutes.

Mr. ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I am very

proud of the budget that the Republicans on the House Budget Committee

have produced.

It produces a balanced budget in

2002—just as we promised.

This will be the first balanced budget

in 33 years. That is right, 1969 was the

last year the Federal Government balanced its books.

As a member of the Budget Committee, I can say we have worked tirelessly since January to produce a plan

that is fair and honest.

The plan has the unanimous support

of the committee Republicans, as well

as Democrat MIKE PARKER of Mississippi. Opponents are already attacking this plan, and distorting what it