S6964 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD— SENATE May 19, 1995 

yesterday he is ‘‘Eager to work with 

Congress’’ to reduce the deficit, and 

since his budget refused to do that by 

reducing the growth of Government 

spending, that can leave only one possible answer: Tax increases; tax increases. 

Are we going to be told by the President, ‘‘Well, we have to balance the 

budget. This is the wrong way. The 

right way is to do what I did in 1993, 

have a big, big $255 billion tax increase’’? I have not heard any other options. We have to conclude something. 

The only conclusion I can reach is 

the President does not want to balance 

the budget, does not want to cut spending, does not want to preserve, protect 

and improve Medicare. So it seems to 

me we have been waiting now 11 days 

since we proposed our balanced budget 

plan. We have not heard a word from 

anybody on the other side of the aisle. 

We have not heard a word from the 

President, and the deficit has increased 

$4.9 billion since we submitted our balanced budget plan. 

Is our plan perfect? No, but it is an 

honest effort to transform Government 

to make it smaller, to make it smarter, 

to make it more sensitive, to make it 

more responsive, to make it less expensive and to reverse the 40-year tide of 

power to the Federal Government. 

Let me say, we look forward to next 

week. I guess you could say we are prepared to make the tough decisions, the 

President will not make any decision. 

That is a clear difference in party philosophy: Do not make any decisions, 

come to the floor and complain about 

what happens to senior citizens, children, veterans, farmers and everybody 

else, but do not worry about the next 

generation, do not worry about your 

grandchildren, do not worry about your 

young children. It will all be taken 

care of by red ink, as the Senator from 

Maine, Senator SNOWE, just pointed 

out. 

It seems to me that if we want status 

quo policies, I guess we can have those, 

if the Democrats prevail. But what we 

need to do right now is defeat the 

President’s budget and then have serious debate on the balanced budget proposed by the distinguished Senator 

from New Mexico, Senator DOMENICI. It 

is not because it is good political theater, as some have suggested, but I 

think it is time to do the right thing. 

I think the President, in his inaugural address, used the word ‘‘change’’

11 times. Apparently he is out of 

change. He does not want any more 

change. He wants the status quo: ‘‘Do 

not cut farm subsidies, do not do this, 

do not do that, do not cut anything 

until after I am reelected in 1996.’’

I do not believe that will sell. I believe the American people are ready—

they have been ready for leadership on 

the budget. We have had a lot of leadership on the other side over the years on 

the budget, and I am still hopeful we 

will still have leadership on the other 

side on the deficit. 

We ought to be in this together. But 

this is the first step. This is the first 

vote. This is a defining vote, and I urge 

my colleagues to vote against the 

President’s budget. 

I ask for the yeas and nays. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a 

sufficient second? 

There is a sufficient second. 

The yeas and nays were ordered. 

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ORDER FOR RECESS TO GREET 

VISITING PARLIAMENTARIANS 

Mr. STEVENS. Mr. President, I ask 

unanimous consent that following the 

announcement of the results of this 

vote that the Senate stand in recess for 

3 minutes in order that Members of the 

Senate may greet the parliamentarians 

who are on the floor. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without 

objection, it is so ordered. 

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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON 

THE BUDGET 

The Senate continued with the consideration of the concurrent resolution. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under 

the previous order, the hour of 10:55 

a.m. having arrived, the Senate will 

now proceed to vote on amendment No. 

1111. The question is on agreeing to the 

amendment. The yeas and nays have 

been ordered. The clerk will call the 

roll. 

The legislative clerk called the roll. 

Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from California [Mrs. BOXER] is 

necessarily absent. 

The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. 

SHELBY). Are there any other Senators 

in the Chamber desiring to vote? 

The result was announced—yeas 0, 

nays 99, as follows: 

[Rollcall Vote No. 172 Leg.] 

NAYS—99 

Abraham 

Akaka 

Ashcroft 

Baucus 

Bennett 

Biden 

Bingaman 

Bond 

Bradley 

Breaux 

Brown 

Bryan 

Bumpers 

Burns 

Byrd 

Campbell 

Chafee 

Coats 

Cochran 

Cohen 

Conrad 

Coverdell 

Craig 

D’Amato 

Daschle 

DeWine 

Dodd 

Dole 

Domenici 

Dorgan 

Exon 

Faircloth 

Feingold 

Feinstein 

Ford 

Frist 

Glenn 

Gorton 

Graham 

Gramm 

Grams 

Grassley 

Gregg 

Harkin 

Hatch 

Hatfield 

Heflin 

Helms 

Hollings 

Hutchison 

Inhofe 

Inouye 

Jeffords 

Johnston 

Kassebaum 

Kempthorne 

Kennedy 

Kerrey 

Kerry 

Kohl 

Kyl 

Lautenberg 

Leahy 

Levin 

Lieberman 

Lott 

Lugar 

Mack 

McCain 

McConnell 

Mikulski 

Moseley-Braun 

Moynihan 

Murkowski 

Murray 

Nickles 

Nunn 

Packwood 

Pell 

Pressler 

Pryor 

Reid 

Robb 

Rockefeller 

Roth 

Santorum 

Sarbanes 

Shelby 

Simon 

Simpson 

Smith 

Snowe 

Specter 

Stevens 

Thomas 

Thompson 

Thurmond 

Warner 

Wellstone 

NOT VOTING—1 

Boxer 

So the amendment (No. 1111) was rejected. 

DEFENSE AND BUDGET ISSUES 

Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I 

yield myself 10 minutes off the bill to 

speak on the budget issue and the defense issue. 

Mr. President, next week some time, 

I presume it would be Senators from 

both sides of the aisle, but I am sure it 

will be led by some Senator from my 

side of the aisle, we will discuss the 

issue of increasing the Senate Budget 

Committee’s numbers for defense. 

I do not want to speak directly to 

that point, but I want to set the stage 

for my position that I think is very unwise to do that. I will want to say in 

connection with some of the remarks I 

am going to say that there is an article 

in the Washington Post today on the 

Federal page where it refers to Senator 

GLENN, and I agree totally with Senator GLENN. 

He was holding a hearing on the bad 

accounting practices of the Defense Department. It refers to Senator GLENN

this way: 

GLENN, who held hearings this week on the 

subject, lamented the fact that while his colleagues worry about budgetary restraints, so 

few of them have been interested in the Pentagon’s wasteful financial practices. 

Senator GLENN spoke about the 

wasteful financial practices. I have 

spoken on that subject many times. I 

thank Senator GLENN for his leadership. 

I want to take a few moments to express concern abut a new policy that is 

being pushed by the comptroller at the 

Department of Defense, Mr. John 

Hamre. I think, basically, Mr. Hamre is 

trying to do a lot of good but he is running into a cement wall on many of the 

things he is trying to accomplish. 

His plan undermines the case for 

pushing up the defense budget. Mr. 

Hamre is proposing just to write off—

just write off—billions of dollars of 

unmatchable disbursements. Now, 

unmatchable disbursements are expenditures that he says he cannot link 

to supporting documentation, so he is 

really ready to throw in the towel and 

to write them off the books. 

The Armed Services Committee held 

hearings, and I refer to Senator GLENN

on this and related matters. The defense appropriations subcommittee is 

going to hold similar hearings next 

Tuesday. 

Not being a member of either committee, I am unable to participate in 

those discussions. 

But because of my intense interest in 

the subject, the chairman of the Defense Subcommittee, my good friend 

Senator TED STEVENS, invited me to 

submit a statement for the record. 

So, I would now like to share my 

thoughts on this issue with my colleagues. 

I think the issue has a direct bearing 

on the proposal to pump up the defense 

budget, which will be an issue next 

week, I think. 

I am deeply troubled by Mr. Hamre’s 

proposal. 

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