[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2330]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    BILL CLINTON'S VIEW OF AMERICA: MORE TAXES, MORE SPENDING, MORE 
                               GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, today the President is going 
to release his budget. Unfortunately, his view of America is more 
taxes, more spending, and more government.
  This is a fact, it is not partisan rhetoric, and we should not be 
surprised. In the past 3 years President Clinton has passed the largest 
tax increase in history, vetoed welfare reform, not once, but twice, 
vetoed tax benefits for families and businesses, vetoed the first 
balanced budget in 26 years, and allowed Medicare to go bankrupt.
  Now he simply wants $8 billion more in new spending this year and a 
4-percent increase in spending next year; all this despite his rhetoric 
that the era of big government is over. This President has proven he 
cannot manage his own bureaucracy. He has shown by his actions he is 
not ready to give the people of this country the ability to achieve 
their own American dream.

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