[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2329]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         THE PRESIDENT HAS THE SAME OLD REMEDIES ON THE BUDGET

  (Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky. Mr. Speaker, today the Clinton administration 
introduced its budget for 1997. I'm sure that liberals all across 
Washington are pleased to see more taxes, more money for the Federal 
bureaucracy, and more of the status quo.
  The rest of America, I suspect, will not be as enthusiastic. Bill 
Clinton has no plan to save Medicare, he has no plan to reform welfare, 
and he offers the same old big government remedies that have failed for 
the last generation.
  Mr. Speaker, just a few weeks ago, Bill Clinton asked Congress to 
give him $8 billion in additional spending for his liberal 
constituencies. Now, he is asking for billions and billions more. 
today, the national debt stands at 5 trillion, 35 billion, and 165 
million dollars. It's time for Bill Clinton to stop playing political 
games with our children's future. Clinton's new budget offers crystal 
clear proof that there is no reason to believe that he wants to balance 
the budget.

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