[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 72 (Tuesday, May 21, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H5310]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE ECONOMY IS GOOD?

  (Mr. KNOLLENBERG asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. KNOLLENBERG. Look out, Mr. and Mrs. America. The President is 
selling his own personal brand of snake oil again. But guess what? 
Sometimes the President does not really mean what he says.
  As recently as this weekend the President said he now supports 
welfare reform. Yes, welfare reform. He is back to that position. So 
far this year he has vetoed, as my colleagues know, changing welfare as 
we know it, not once, but twice. The President has simply surrounded 
this issue.
  In fact, he switched his position so many times I am starting to get 
a bit dizzy.
  Then he said this is, and again I quote, the healthiest economy in 30 
years. If this is the healthiest economy in 30 years, then why does it 
lag behind all 4 years of the Carter administration? That is right. 
Remember the Carter years? The Carter economy grew 2\1/2\ times faster 
than the Clinton economy. No wonder everybody is worried. That does not 
sound like the healthiest economy in 30 years.
  So I say, enough of the Clinton snake oil, enough of the flip-flops. 
Americans are no longer buying that line.

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