[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 63 (Wednesday, April 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4181]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               THE CIRCUS

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I will agree with the preceding speaker on 
one matter: There is a circus and it is not the Ringling Brothers 
outside; the circus came to town 40 years ago with my liberal brethren 
on the other side of the aisle, still dealing with hocus-pocus of the 
speaker when we know that Senator Mosely-Braun of Illinois introduced 
all these little sleight-of-hand documents here.
  Let us talk about the rhetoric and the clowns. Those are folks who 
come forth making claims so outlandish regarding school lunches and 
school loans they would be funny if they were not so pathetic. Then you 
have the real acrobats. Those are the Members who talk about deficit 
reduction but then acting another way to spend our grandchildren's 
money without shame. They could be the real contortionists.
  Then you have the tightrope walkers; those are Members who balance 
precariously between what the voters want, which is lower taxes and 
lower spending, and then you have what the liberal leadership of the 
Democratic Party wants, which is higher taxes and more spending.
  Mr. Speaker, there is one real difference between Ringling Brothers 
and the liberal Democratic leadership: At least the real circus out 
front is entertaining.


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