[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 199 (Thursday, December 14, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H14873-H14874]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          ROCKETS' TRAJECTORY TAKES THEM TO THE LAS VEGAS BOWL

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, this evening the undefeated University of 
Toledo Rockets will take to the field in the Las Vegas Bowl and once 
again display their awesome offensive prowess as they defeat the 
University of Nevada Wolf Pack--for the second time this year. It's an 
uncommon event to have a rematch in post-season college football, but 
tonight Toledo and Nevada will reprise their September contest--a game 
in which the Rockets beat the turnover-prone Wolf Pact 49 to 35.
  This is the Rockets' sixth bowl appearance. They have prevailed in 
all--with five solid wins and one forfeit. Now I'm sure the Wolf Pack 
has no intention of forfeiting, but the Rockets will prevail again 
nonetheless.
  As is the custom in the House, I offer my friend from Reno and 
colleague on the Appropriations Committee, Barbara Vucanovich, a 
congenial wager that Toledo's irrepressible Rockets will defeat Nevada 
tonight. So, as Toledo is known as the glass capital of the world, I 
will risk a set of Libbey Glass wine glasses and Ohio Catawba 
nonalcoholic Sparkling Grape Juice to fill them on my conviction that 
Toledo's Rockets will blast off from Las Vegas victorious.

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             PENS, DISAPPEARING INK, AND SHARPENED PENCILS

  (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, I will withstand the temptation to talk 
about football because I did that most of my professional life. Instead 
I would simply offer the following observations:
  It is my sincere and solid hope that President Clinton did not take 
the pen Lyndon Johnson used to sign the Tonkin Gulf resolution with him 
to Paris to sign the treaty. Of course last week President Clinton took 
LBJ's Medicare pen to discover it was out of ink, and about a month ago 
President Clinton, amidst great fanfare, signed a public law, a budget 
agreement agreeing to get to a balanced budget in 7 years using honest 
numbers, but I suppose the President believes he used disappearing ink 
in signing that agreement.
  Mr. Speaker, the President should take out a sharpened pencil and, 
with his budgeteers, work toward an honest balanced budget within 7 
years. That is our mission. The American people will settle for no 
less.

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