[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 97 (Wednesday, June 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESIDENT'S BUDGET EFFORTS ARE LATE

  (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, this morning the silence is deafening. 
Only 2 members of the new minority, with over 200 members in their 
ranks, only 2 members of the new minority stood here in the well of the 
House to champion the President's effort to balance the budget. Let me 
again repeat what the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on 
Appropriations told both the Associated Press and ABC News:

       I think most of us learned some time ago that if you don't 
     like the President's position on a particular issue, you 
     simply need to wait a few weeks . . . If you can follow this 
     White House on the budget, you're a whole lot smarter than I 
     am.

  So spoke the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Obey]. Small wonder then 
that I refer to my friends on this side of the aisle as guardians of 
the old order. We welcome the President's efforts, but as our own 
leadership said, this train left the station, and he is making a vain 
attempt now to latch on to the caboose.


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