[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H776]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           STATE OF CONFUSION

  (Mr. MARTINI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARTINI. Mr. Speaker, last night the American people did not hear 
the State of the Union but rather I suggest they heard a statement of 
confusion, albeit a statement of contradictions.
  President Clinton spoke to the American people once again about 
balancing the budget, ending welfare as we know it, saving Medicare and 
providing middle-class tax relief. However when this Republican 
Congress sent him an honest balanced budget, he vetoed that. When the 
Congress sent him a welfare reform bill to end dependency, he vetoed 
that. When the Congress passed a measure to save Medicare, he once 
again vetoed that. And when we sent him legislation to provide the 
middle-class tax cut he referred to last night, he vetoed that.
  This Congress has sent the President virtually everything he spoke 
about last evening. He just must be confused, in my opinion.
  Mr. President, the American people are not confused. It is time to 
stop talking and start signing, not vetoing these bills. The American 
people have demanded these changes in 1992, in 1994 again, and the 
Congress has delivered more than just a speech.

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