[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 183 (Friday, November 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13143]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     WHO IS RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT?

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, we have been in a real quandary here. The 
President asked for a clean continuing resolution; we gave it to him. 
The President said he wanted to balance the budget; we gave him a 
commitment, a 7-year commitment to balancing the budget with exactly 
the scoring from CBO that he asked for.
  So we have to ask the question about who is running things? Well, we 
found out. ``I am running the country.'' We heard this yesterday. 
Clearly, that must have been the President. Well, maybe the Vice 
President. Was it Alexander Haig? Could it have been Socks? No.
  It was Dick Morris, the President's guru, the President's consultant.
  No wonder we give the President exactly what he wants: Put the 
Federal workers back to work, end this silliness, and we find out it is 
Dick Morris all along.

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