[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 26, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 26, 1994]
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            REPUBLICANS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH CLINTON'S SUCCESS

  (Mr. DURBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, my Republican colleagues looked down right 
uncomfortable last night. They were sitting here listening to the 
President's State of the Union Address and realizing that their dire 
predictions about the first year of the Clinton administration didn't 
come true. President Clinton came into office and inherited a pretty 
bad state of the economy. We had had the slowest economic growth in 
half a century under President Bush, the slowest job creation in 50 
years under President Bush's administration, and President Clinton 
inherited the biggest deficit any President has ever inherited.

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  He rolled up his sleeves, working with Democratic Members of 
Congress, passed a deficit control measure which is starting to bring 
about dramatic results. Ask Americans across this Nation how many have 
refinanced their homes because of lower interest rates and businesses 
which are now investing and creating jobs, 1.6 million new jobs created 
last year under President Clinton, more than the 4 years preceding 
under President Bush.
  And there is a lot more to do. The President set out an ambitious 
agenda last night on health care reform, welfare reform, and a tough 
crime bill. It will take a bipartisan approach to get this done. I hope 
both parties can work together in this Chamber to end the kind of 
gridlock we were used to so many years ago.

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