[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4340]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 THE CONSEQUENCES OF BIGGER GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, for the last generation the governing 
principle here in Washington, especially here in the Congress, was 
always, above all, make government bigger. We now see the consequences 
of this ridiculous principle, almost $5 trillion national debt, 
bloated, inefficient government, failed welfare state, obsessive 
regulation, and some of the highest taxes in history.
  Mr. Speaker, the liberal Democrat leadership claims that we 
Republicans misread the message of last November. They claim Americans 
really do not want a tax cut, they do not want term limits, they really 
do not want to balance the budget. But, Mr. Speaker, it is the liberal 
Democrats who have misread the message of last November, because, you 
see, the Contract With America is not about Republicans, it is about 
the American people. The American people want an end to the out-of-
control growth of a Federal Government, they want safer neighborhoods, 
they want lower taxes, they want a secure future for their children. 
That is what our contract is all about.
  It is not really all that complicated. The new governing principle in 
this Nation is not what benefits the Government but what benefits the 
American people.


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