[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 91 (Wednesday, June 19, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6516]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              CLINTONOMICS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, today I submit the latest ``Say what, Mr. 
President?'' and the credit goes to Clinton appointee Richard Rominger 
who last night proclaimed to the Georgia Farm Bureau that, and I quote, 
``During this administration, the national debt has fallen $15,000 per 
family of four.''
  ``How so?'' asks our numbers-crunching colleague, Mac Collins, 
because the national debt has risen steadily during this 
administration.
  ``Well,'' answered a shameless Rominger, ``the annual deficit had 
been rising and since it is not rising as much, the $15,000 represents 
the additional amount saved had it kept rising.''
  Let me put that in English. I weigh 170 pounds. I have never weighed 
190 pounds. But according to Clintonomics, I lost 20 pounds if I add up 
all the sundaes and desserts that I have said ``no'' to.
  Ladies and gentlemen, that is Clintonomics. It is like an Oliver 
Stone movie--it is exciting, it is entertaining, but it is not based on 
reality.

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