[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 126 (Monday, September 12, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: September 12, 1994]
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                       HOUDINI IN THE WHITE HOUSE

  (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, with the lowest approval rating in 
20 years, it is no wonder President Clinton would like to divert the 
public's eyes as much as America would obviously like to avert them.
  Like some latter day Houdini, the President seems to relish 
constructing ever tougher dilemmas and then conjuring up ever more 
miraculous escapes.
  Regretfully, it is the American people these tricks are really tough 
on. They are the ones who must pay his higher gas taxes, his higher 
Social Security taxes, his higher income taxes, and his higher 
inflation.
  In fact, it seems all this is still not enough of a challenge for the 
White House and that it wants to revise a routine not seen since the 
Carter administration--stagflation. This really incredible trick has 
the economy go down while prices still go up.
  So right on cue, at the moment of greatest crisis and the November 
elections, President Clinton wants to escape from his predicament by 
turning himself into a new Democrat. He intends to do it with the magic 
spell of family values.
  America has seen this trick before and it should not be fooled again.

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