[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 12, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2039]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               WHITE HOUSE REQUESTS ADDITIONAL $8 BILLION

  (Mr. JONES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. JONES. Mr. Speaker, wages are down and taxes are up. The middle 
class is slowly being squeezed by liberal economic policies put in 
place by the Clinton administration. Now we hear that the White House 
has requested an additional $8 billion for corporate welfare and social 
engineering programs.
  This is basically a Clinton reelection pork package. What really 
rattles me about this request is that the Clinton administration wants 
$10 million more for the National Endowment for the Arts. This is 
outrageous.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people are tired of seeing their hard-
earned tax dollars wasted on projects that go out of their way to 
offend traditional values. It is outrageous that Bill Clinton would ask 
for an additional $10 million for this program in order to please the 
extreme liberal wing of the Democratic Party.

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