[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 10 (Monday, February 7, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: February 7, 1994]
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                           CREDIBILITY GULCH

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, you have all heard of credibility 
gap. Well, this administration's credibility gap has widened into a 
credibility gulch. No, you will not find it on a map, so you will need 
to follow the Clinton administration's directions to get there.
  First, you say you will take a right by promising a tax cut. But, 
instead, you go left by delivering income taxes, Social Security taxes, 
gas taxes, business taxes, and inheritance taxes.
  Then, you say you will take another right by promising to end welfare 
as we know it. But again you go left by delivering a new welfare 
program that is going to cost more than the old.
  You keep driving until you come to crime. There you signal a hard 
right, but you take a hard left, by sending up a budget that cuts funds 
for Federal prosecutors and prisons.
  When you come to the economic signs for spending cuts, you signal you 
are for them, but you keep right on driving by opposing a real vote to 
cut the Federal budget just 1 cent on the dollar.
  If you get cited for ignoring family values and self-responsibility, 
just try and talk your way out of it.
  Finally, when you get to health care you turn a sharp left into a U-
turn by backing a government-run health care program and claiming it 
will deliver more services, more efficiently, at less cost.
  Like I said, you will not find credibility gap on a map, but you will 
find President Clinton at credibility gulch.

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