[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 2 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H127]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              REPUBLICANS CONCERNED WITH BALANCING BUDGET

  (Mr. STEARNS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STEARNS. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend to give a 1-minute speech, 
but I thought I would reply to the gentleman before me, because I think 
he knows and I know that his party shut down the House of 
Representatives, shut down Congress, shut down the Government nine 
times. You were involved in the last 10 or 12 years in almost every 
kind of parliamentary move, chicanery, in dealing with the White House 
at that time, owned and operated or run by Republicans, the Republican 
Presidents there. And your party was involved in doing much more than 
we have even started to do, which is to try to balance the budget.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to say to the folks on that side of the 
aisle that I hear time and time again that the Republicans are doing 
all this for tax cuts for the rich. Let me give them a quick review of 
the Los Angeles Times story from yesterday, where it says ``Clinton set 
to accept capital gains tax.''
  If you are going to run around here saying we have tax cuts for the 
rich, you better talk to your own President.

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