[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 180 (Tuesday, November 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H12203]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   CHANGING THE CULTURE IN WASHINGTON

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Madam Speaker, I listened with great interest to my 
good friend from Illinois. He said, ``Federal workers, the ones who 
elected us, do not want to see the Government closed down.''
  There are a lot of dedicated governmental employees. I do not doubt 
that for a second. But the fact is there is a special interest at work 
here. It is the special interest of those who always ask us to tax and 
spend and take more of your money to run a bigger and bigger and bigger 
Federal Government.
  All the other issues are misdirected. All the other issues are to 
take you away from the central defining question that we are to decide 
today or in the days to come. That is, do we want to fundamentally 
change the culture of tax and spend in Washington?
  President Clinton said time and again on the campaign trail, he was 
for a balanced budget. My good friends on this side of the aisle say 
time and again, ``Well, sure we want to balance the budget, but no.''
  No ifs, and, or buts. No excuses. It is time to change the culture of 
tax-and-spend, time to balance the budget, and we intend to do exactly 
that.

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