[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 194 (Thursday, December 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H14179]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PRESIDENT'S VETO OF BALANCED BUDGET

  (Mrs. CHENOWETH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, I find it interesting that one of our 
colleagues spoke about the fact that the President vetoed the balanced 
budget bill yesterday that came across his desk with the pen that was 
used by Lyndon Johnson.
  Mr. Speaker, what the gentleman failed to say was that that pen was 
out of ink. I think that is significant. The President then dipped that 
pen into an inkwell to give it new life, and there was no ink in the 
inkwell. So, the President did not veto this very important bill with 
Lyndon Johnson's pen, but just an ordinary pen.
  Mr. Speaker, in vetoing this bill, he vetoed a bill that was so 
incredibly important to the American people that our telephone systems 
in the House and the Senate experienced meltdown because of the 
numerous, thousands and thousands of calls that came in not only to the 
House and the Senate, but also to the White House.
  Mr. Speaker, I also want to say that the only objection, or the only 
thing that the other side of the aisle can talk about is character 
assassination about the Speaker.

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