[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 40 (Thursday, March 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H2561-H2562]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 VETO PRESIDENT POISED TO STRIKE AGAIN

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Madam Speaker, bowing to special interests, the veto 
President is poised to strike again. The President who stopped welfare 
reform, tax cuts, and a balanced budget announced this past weekend 
that he will veto a bipartisan legal reform bill.
  As Governor of Arkansas, the President called for just this type of 
legislation to limit frivolous lawsuits and sky-high punitive damage 
awards. But

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as President, the special interest lobbying group of trial lawyers is a 
heavy contributor to his reelection campaign.
  Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller said it best: ``Special interests 
and raw political considerations in the White House have overridden 
sound policy judgment.''
  Raw political considerations drove the President to veto welfare 
reform after he promised to ``end welfare as we know it.'' Political 
considerations made the President veto tax cuts and a balanced budget 
after he promised both. It is time for Bill Clinton to consider the 
American people--and not special interest lobbyists--for a change.

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