[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 10, 1994]
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           CLINTON'S NEW THREE STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT POLICY

  (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, there are three issues before the 
American people today.
  Health care is on their minds, Whitewater is on the front page of 
their papers, and the Federal budget deficit is in their wallets.
  The three are not unrelated.
  A White House that proposes a deficit-increasing health care plan and 
opposes a budget-balancing amendment is not being forthright about the 
budget.
  Nothing could more clearly illustrate where the administration is 
coming from or where they would like to take the Nation.
  A White House staffed by people that could not handle the 
transactions of a small-time Arkansas Savings & Loan--and now cannot 
handle the investigation of it--cannot be trusted to take over 
operation of the Nation's entire health care system.
  With deficit-increasing health care reform, Whitewater, and 
opposition to the balanced budget amendment, it appears that the 
administration is devising a novel innovation of the three strikes and 
you're out policy.
  Regretfully for the American people, the Clinton administration just 
keeps on swinging, and missing.

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