[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H748]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             A LITTLE FRIENDLY ADVICE FOR PRESIDENT CLINTON

  (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, President Clinton has not asked me for any 
advice, but if he were to ask in the spirit of bipartisanship, I would 
be happy to oblige. I would say, ``Mr. President, you are about to give 
your State of the Union Address. You have got your hands full right now 
with a host of problems. You vetoed the Balanced Budget Act while 
keeping Hazel O'Leary, who uses taxpayer dollars to hire Madonna's 
plane, still on the job. You still have got people upset with you 
because you raised taxes, the biggest tax increase in American history. 
You have promised to end welfare as we know it, and then you vetoed 
welfare reform. And you have gone back on your word to cut taxes on the 
American people.''
  I would say, ``Mr. President, you can still make things right with 
the American people. You can still keep those promises you have made 
and broken so many times. You can agree to balance the budget by 
restraining spending and cutting taxes on hard-working American 
families. If you do that, Mr. President, you would finally be keeping 
your word and you would make an awful lot of Americans happy.''
  For what it is worth, that is the advice I would give President 
Clinton.

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