[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 170 (Tuesday, October 31, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11465]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      PRESIDENTIAL TRICK OR TREAT?

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Madam Speaker, tonight is Halloween and 
Americans want to know if they will get a trick or treat from their 
President.
  The President has told Americans that he wants these four things in 
the Federal budget:
  No. 1, a plan that will balance the Federal budget in 7 years.
  No. 2, a plan that will save Medicare from bankruptcy.
  No. 3, a plan that will end welfare as we know it.
  No. 4, a plan that will cut taxes for families and reduce the capital 
gains tax to spur job creation and economic growth.
  Madam Speaker, the President has never presented such a plan. But the 
House and the Senate have passed and will shortly send to the President 
a budget reconciliation plan that will achieve all four of the 
President's goals.
  The question is: Will the President trick Americans and veto the only 
budget plan that will achieve his goals or will the President treat 
Americans and just sign the balanced budget?
  Madam Speaker, Americans want to know what their President will give 
them this Halloween, trick or treat.

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