[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H123]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           AS THE POLLS TURN

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Speaker, let our people go? The Speaker and this 
House have bent over backwards. We have passed two balanced budget 
plans, we have passed appropriation bills.
  The President vetoed the first balanced budget plan in a generation. 
The President has vetoed the Interior bill. The President has vetoed 
bills that would get funding for veterans' affairs, for HUD, for the 
Environmental Protection Agency.
  This truly is the do-nothing President. His people are telling him at 
the White House, ``Do nothing, stand in the road, block progress, fight 
a balanced budget at all costs. That is what you need to do, Mr. 
President. Be firm, do nothing, and your poll points will go up.''
  Maybe they will. I really do not care whether his poll points go up 
or not. The fact of the matter is we have put on the table the first 
balanced budget in a generation, and if the President wants to continue 
standing in the way of that, fine. We are going to balance this budget 
with or without him.

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