[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 204 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15097]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SANTA DOES NOT LIVE IN WASHINGTON, DC

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, politicians in this town have dressed up as 
Santa Claus, popped down the chimney and robbed American families 
blind. On, sure, they have given gifts to their special-interest 
friends, but they have used the American people's credit card to do it, 
and all they have left our kids is a debt so huge that every single 
child born this year inherits a bill for $187,000 just to pay the 
interest, just the interest, on the national debt.
  These fake Santas, Mr. Speaker, take more than our milk and cookies. 
They gorge themselves on everything they can get their hands on, and 
then they claim that American families do not really need their taxes 
cut.
  But the fact of the matter is that these fake Santas are eating the 
average family out of house and home. We have to slow the growth of 
wasteful Government spending, Mr. Speaker. We have to cut taxes. We 
have to cut the waste.
   Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve no less. It is time to 
remember that Santa Claus does not live in Washington, DC.

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