[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 179 (Monday, November 13, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H16951]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 LET US SAY NO TO PORK-BARREL SPENDING

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. I thought my ears were playing tricks on me yesterday 
when I heard White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta say that this 
Congress is going to have to learn to do things the old-fashioned way. 
By that, he means, of course, business as ususal.
  Well, I had a chance to go back home to Cincinnati over the weekend. 
Unlike the President, I did not play golf, I did not consult with any 
high-priced pollsters.
  But I did have the opportunity to talk to the type of people, the 
regular folks back in fact in Cincinnati, who sent me here to Congress. 
They did not tell me to vote the old pork-barrel way, as Mr. Panetta 
encourages. They told me to stick to my guns, to do what I promised I 
would do, to keep working to balance the budget.
  During his campaign, candidate Bill Clinton promised to balance the 
budget in 5 years. Now that he is in the White House, he refuses to 
even discuss balancing it in 7 years. Still Mr. Speaker, the President 
should not underestimate the intelligence of the American taxpayers. 
They know the political gamesmanship when they see it, and they do not 
like it.
  They want us to balance the budget. Let us do it now.

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