[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 55 (Thursday, May 1, 1997)]
[House]
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CONGRESS IS MOVING FORWARD WITH ITS AGENDA WHILE THE WHITE HOUSE DEALS 
                             WITH SCANDALS

  (Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma. Mr. Speaker, while the White House is fully 
occupied with an army of lawyers dealing with all the campaign 
scandals, we here in Congress are moving forward with our agenda.
  Our agenda is nothing more than the agenda the American people who 
elected us asked us to implement. That agenda includes balancing the 
budget for the first time since 1969. That agenda includes cutting the 
tax on capital gains so that the economy will produce more jobs and 
more opportunities, cutting taxes for working families, giving them 
relief at home.
  That agenda includes fundamental Medicare reform so seniors are 
protected from a system in danger of bankruptcy. That agenda includes 
smaller government, less bureaucracy, and more control in local 
communities. That agenda includes a recognition that the fraying of 
America can only be addressed with a greater respect for traditional 
American values, and by strengthening the family, not weakening it.

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  That is our agenda and that is the agenda of the majority of the 
American people. I ask my colleagues to join me in implementing that 
agenda.

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