[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H13940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT A BALANCED BUDGET AND NOT CHARACTER ASSASSINATION

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my 
friend, the minority whip, trying to whip this body into a rage with an 
editorial from the Hartford Courant. It is interesting, Mr. Speaker, to 
hear really the poster boy of American liberal journalism, Bob 
Woodward, on ``Meet the Press'' this weekend, saying in effect that all 
of these chargers were trumped up, that there was no reason to attack 
the Speaker on any of these things.
  In fact what we see, Mr. Speaker, is a minority so bereft of ideas, 
so unwilling to come to the table, so unwilling to address the central 
question, which is balancing this budget in 7 years, that they will try 
any tactic of character assassination, any exaggeration, anything to 
avoid the point.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people want it now, they want it simply, 
they want us to face up to the challenges they put us here to face up 
to. They want us to balance the budget and not to engage in character 
assassination.

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