[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 106 (Thursday, August 4, 1994)]
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              IT'S NOT NICE TO FOOL THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, the new motto for the Democrat Party is:
  ``Never give the taxpayer an even break.''
  First with the health care bill, then with the welfare reform 
proposal, and now with the crime bill, it is the taxpayer who 
ultimately pays the price.
  The President calls his crime bill tough, but it will only be tough 
for the middle class. This bill does not take a bite out of crime, it 
takes a bite out of the taxpayer. In fact, only half of the money in 
this bill will go to fight crime. The rest, $9 billion worth, will go 
to liberal administration officials in the form of pork barrel 
spending.
  Mr. Speaker, the President is playing the taxpayer for a sucker, but, 
according to the latest polls, fortunately the American people are not 
biting. After all, it is not nice to fool the American taxpayer.

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