[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 190 (Thursday, November 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13811]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION

  (Mr. FAZIO of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FAZIO of California. Mr. Speaker, truth really is stranger than 
fiction.
  These budget negotiations are beginning to remind me of a movie that 
come out a few years ago.
  You might remember it. A television weatherman wakes up in the 
twilight zone. He finds himself living the same day over and over and 
over again.
  It was an amusing premise for a movie.
  But, for the last month, the American people have been waking up 
every morning to the same budget nightmare. Only it is not a nightmare, 
it is inescapable reality.
  It is a budget crafted by Speaker Gingrich. Everyday the American 
people wake to confront the same Republican budget, the same deep cuts 
in education, in Medicare, and environmental programs.
  Its a monument to misplaced priorities. They have put tax breaks for 
the wealthy first, and the interests of working families last.
  Fortunately, a group of Democrats have put forward a sensible, 7-year 
budget--a budget that offers a path out of the twilight zone of 
posturing and positioning that now consumes Washington.
  We owe it to the American people to take a look at this budget--a 
Democratic budget that protects our priorities and achieves real, 
concrete deficit reduction.

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