[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 3 (Friday, January 5, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES

  (Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to point out a 
very, very important fact I think every American should be aware of. We 
passed a continuing resolution today that simply says all the President 
of the United States has to do is submit a budget that is balanced in 7 
years as scored by the CBO, the Government will open up.
  But shamefully the President, before the ink was even dry on that 
bill, announced that he would not do it. The emperor has no clothes. We 
now know that the President does not want to balance the budget. There 
is no pretense. There is no disguising it. He has admitted to the 
public that he does not want to balance the budget and that he will not 
balance the budget.
  What we are about doing is getting this Government opened up and 
running, despite a President who is determined to do everything in his 
power to make sure that we do not balance the budget.
  What the President is doing, in my opinion is wrong. I ask all my 
colleagues to work with us on both sides of the aisle to try to get 
this Nation back up and running.

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