[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 9 (Wednesday, January 24, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H777]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       CLINTON SEES THE LIGHT--FINALLY AGREES TO LESS GOVERNMENT

  (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, the gentleman from Missouri who is in the 
back here was incorrect when he alleged the Speaker, speaking about the 
welfare bill this morning, did not have the vote count right. It was 87 
to 12 that the welfare bill passed out of the Senate, and it was 52 to 
47 on the conference report. The gentleman was confusing the conference 
report with the original welfare bill in the Senate which passed 
overwhelmingly. The Speaker was correct.
  So with that, last evening the President gave his State of the Union. 
As I listened, I said to myself, it sounds like the Republican agenda. 
It is like the President has had a Damascus experience. He was reborn 
again. Sometimes he is reborn every 3 months.
  Republicans should feel very satisfied because we have overturned the 
Democrats' control here in Congress, made a balanced budget a national 
priority, bipartisan priority, ended the idea that entitlement spending 
is holy, and started the debate on the complete rethinking of the Tax 
Code.

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