[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 26 (Thursday, March 10, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 10, 1994]
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     ECONOMY'S IMPROVEMENT SHOWS COUNTRY IS BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK

  (Mr. VISCLOSKY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, as we begin this year's budget debate it 
would be instructive to look back at the Republican rhetoric of last 
year's debate verses today's economic reality.
  Last year, Mr. Kasich said, ``The Democrats have the job killer 
program.''
  Mr. Armey added, ``This plan is not a recipe for new jobs * * *. It 
is a recipe for disaster.''
  Luckily, for the American people, Mr. Kasich, Mr. Armey, and their 
Republican colleagues were dead wrong.
  More than 2 million jobs have been created during the first 13 months 
of the Clinton administration. Already, the United States has seen 
500,000 more jobs created under Bill Clinton and the Democrats than 
during the entire 4 years under George Bush.
  The job creation has resulted in the largest drop in unemployment in 
6 years and a 20-percent increase in help wanted advertising.
  Mr. Speaker, the economic facts are real. In the face of unanimous 
Republican opposition and super-heated rhetoric, jobs are being 
created, the deficit is being reduced, interest rates are down, and the 
country is starting back on the right track.

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