[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14177]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         MORE IDEAS NEEDED FROM WHITE HOUSE ON BALANCING BUDGET

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, it is without venom or vitriol that I rise 
today to respectfully suggest that the major story in Washington 
yesterday took place not here, but at the other end of Pennsylvania 
Avenue, where the President of the United States again opted for 
showmanship over statesmanship, wielding Lyndon Johnson's pen from 
1965, the pen LBJ used to sign the Medicare Act even as the current 
President was vetoing the Balanced Budget Act of 1995. And, in doing 
so, again the President opted for fear over facts, when he talked about 
nonexistent cuts in the Medicare budget. That simply was not true.
  Mr. Speaker, I would respectfully suggest that the President of the 
United States and his Cabinet-level officials get out a sharpened 
pencil, instead of LBJ's pen, and go to work formulating a plan to get 
us to a balanced budget in 7 years, because a sharpened pencil is what 
American families use around the kitchen table to decide how they are 
going to spend money.
  And, oh, yes, Mr. Speaker, one unintended act of symbolism: When the 
President reached for LBJ's pen, there was no ink in the well. There 
are no ideas coming from the White House, nor from the minority.

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