[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 87 (Thursday, June 13, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H6292-H6293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN THIS HOUSE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR HUGE 
                DEFICITS, NOT THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. WELDON of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I want to address the comments of 
the gentlewoman who just spoke. The Reagan administration was not 
responsible for those huge deficits. It was this House, the liberal 
Democrats in this House, who repeatedly served up to that President 
increasing levels of spending, the creation of new programs and new 
departments, which President Reagan repeatedly vetoed those 
appropriations bills, and it resulted in the Government being closed 
down. Yes; the Government was closed down 17 times during the Reagan 
and Bush administrations. Why? Because the liberal Democrats in the 
House wanted to spend more money.
  Mr. Speaker, for the first time, we have a House of Representatives 
that wants to spend less and a liberal Democrat President in the White 
House who is closing down the Government with his vetoes because he 
wants to spend more money. We need to set the record straight for the 
American people. Those deficits that were created in the 1980's were 
created while Federal revenues to the Treasury increased $600 billion. 
It is because this House of Representatives spent $800 billion more

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over that time period, creating the hugest deficits this Nation has 
ever known.

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