[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 50 (Thursday, April 18, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3584]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING

  (Mr. BAKER of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BAKER of California. Mr. Speaker, I could not agree more with the 
gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant]. That tragedy occurred in 
California; the trial has gone on long enough. Let us commence the 
execution.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people inherently know that the Federal 
Government has no problem spending money. This Government has created a 
$5 trillion national debt, which will be paid off by our children, 
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. It has created a bureaucracy so 
large that almost every aspect of your life is somehow touched by it, 
either through regulation or through taxation.
  Since the Republicans took over Congress, we may not have done 
everything we want to accomplish, but we have done one thing very 
important: We have changed the debate. It is not whether we should do 
the right thing, it is how to do the right thing.
  For 40 years Congress has been dominated by the liberal impulse to 
spend more and tax more. Hopefully that philosophy has been laid to 
rest. The Republicans will continue to fight for the kind of change 
demanded by the American people in the 1994 elections, because it is 
wrong to steal from our children and our grandchildren, no matter how 
compassionate it might be.
  Mr. Speaker, let us kill the tax-and-spend philosophy, the minimum 
wage philosophy, to spend through regulation.

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