[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 23 (Monday, February 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H1221-H1222]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




A PROMISE TO FORMER PRESIDENT REAGAN: THE HOUSE WILL PASS THE LINE-ITEM 
                                  VETO

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
  [[Page H1222]] for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, Republicans have promised a lot lately. 
We promised to make Congress subject to the same laws that the rest of 
the American people have to live with. We kept that promise. We 
promised to give the American people a balanced budget amendment. We 
kept that promise. We promised to put an end to burdensome unfunded 
mandates, and we kept that promise.
  Mr. Speaker, Republicans are keeping every single promise we have 
made to the American people. Today we will fulfill another promise by 
voting and passing the line-item veto.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to make one more promise. Seven years ago 
President Ronald Reagan delivered his final State of the Union Address. 
He asked Congress to give the future Presidents the line-item veto. He 
would not have it, but he was asking for the American people and for 
every President to come after him to have that opportunity.
  I promise to him on his 84th birthday today that we will give the 
President of the United States the line-item veto. I ask my colleagues 
to vote in favor of that today.

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