[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 142 (Wednesday, September 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H8812]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT CLINTON WEIGHS IN ON FUNDAMENTAL REFORMS

  (Mr. RIGGS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RIGGS. Mr. Speaker, yesterday the President convened a meeting of 
the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House and he urged 
the Congress to get on with the task of balancing the Federal budget, 
reforming the welfare system, cutting taxes, particularly on middle-
class families, and controlling Medicare costs.
  Mr. Speaker, it is good to hear the President weigh in in this 
debate. Yet I predict that the response that he will get from the 
Congress and his party is a stony silence. How ironic that it is going 
to take the new Republican majority to help this President, who as a 
candidate promised to end welfare as we know it and cut taxes, make 
good on those promises.


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