[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 48 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H3158]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
KEEP THE REPUBLICAN PROMISE: CONTROL BOTH TAXING AND SPENDING
(Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, in the last few weeks, the other side of the
aisle has engaged in such heated and hysterical rhetoric that it has
reached meltdown levels. Their leadership and their President can no
longer be thought of as sober or rational, and their hysterical and
pathetic claims reveal a total lack of reasoned analysis of the facts.
They are slaves to a welfare state that insists on high taxes and
bigger bureaucracies. They fail to see the disastrous consequences of
welfare, and they are blind to the out-of-control spending that may yet
put us all in the poor house.
Last November, the American people short-circuited the tax-and-spend
Democrats. They said no to deficit spending and yes to accountability
and responsibility. Republicans will keep our promise to cut wasteful
Federal spending and to let Americans families keep more of what they
earn. It is only right that we gain control of our taxing and spending,
so that future generations may enjoy a decent way of life. Surely the
alternative is budgetary chaos.
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