[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 206 (Thursday, December 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H15488]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SAVING THE AMERICAN DREAM

  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, the headline in the Washington Post this 
morning is wrong. It says, ``House Republicans Derail Budget Talks.'' 
We should make it perfectly clear that the person who derailed the 
budget talks was Vice President Al Gore when he came out to the 
microphones at the White House the other night after the Speaker and 
the majority leader in the Senate met with the President, and he 
poisoned the well by mischaracterizing the agreements that were made at 
the White House.
  We are intent on balancing the budget, and we are intent on doing it 
now. We can give our children and our grandchildren the greatest 
Christmas present that anyone could ever leave to the next generation, 
and that is a balanced budget which means saving the American dream for 
our children and theirs.
  We are going to do it, and we are going to do it now.

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