[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 16 (Thursday, January 26, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E187]
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                 PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS

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                        HON. ANDREW JACOBS, JR.

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, January 26, 1995
  Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Speaker, I place in the Record assorted comments from 
the Hoosier delegation to Congress on the subject of the President's 
State of the Union Address.

       The president always gives a good speech, and he says 
     things that we like to hear. The problem in the past is that 
     what the president says and what the president does are two 
     very different things.--Sen. Dan Coats, R.
       In the wake of a disastrous election experience in 1994, 
     which often centered around failures of his presidency, 
     President Clinton's State of the Union address offered timely 
     and welcome cooperation with the Republican Congress.--Sen. 
     Richard Lugar, R.
       From my perspective, it's a good speech to the extent that 
     the president adopts items from the Contract with America 
     because I think that's what the public wants us to do. And 
     second, what's going to be important is that it not just be 
     rhetoric, but that it be followed up by action with his 
     administration.--Rep. David McIntosh, R.
       I have served with seven presidents and I have never heard 
     one of them give a State of the Union address that did not 
     sound good. This one was slightly better than the average.--
     Rep. Andrew Jacobs, D.
       Overall I believe it was positive. I look forward to being 
     in a Congress that works with a president that is going to 
     reduce the size of the federal government. Sounds like that's 
     what he wants to do, and if he's sincere in that, he's going 
     to get great cooperation from this Republican-controlled 
     house.--Rep. John Hostettler, R.
       The speech was rather striking in that for a State of the 
     Union address it really proposed no major initiatives. Now 
     there were a few initiatives but there was nothing I would 
     call major. And he, in some ways, I think, did not explain 
     his core beliefs and principles. The voter today is not just 
     sure what is important to this president. And I think that 
     the State of the Union was so long and so diffused that he 
     missed that opportunity.--Rep. Lee Hamilton, D.
     

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