[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 28, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H70]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          STANDING WITH THE PRESIDENT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

  (Ms. JACKSON-LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON-LEE. Mr. Speaker, last night the message of the President 
of the United States was a very strong message. It was a visionary 
message full of vision and promise for America.
  Last night, the American people heard from America's President. He 
offered for the first time in 30 years a balanced budget. He spoke 
about the sacred privileges of the patient-physician relationship and 
demanded that intrusive, hard-knuckled accountants and others who want 
to look at the numbers do not interfere with good health care in 
America.
  He talked to mothers and fathers who needed child care to raise their 
children right. He talked about rebuilding our crumbling schools and 
making a commitment to work with local governments and jurisdictions. 
And, yes, he emphasized that there is something valuable to every 
American having affordable housing.
  Mr. Speaker, I heard one of my colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle define the President's program last night in speaking to the 
public as ``left leaning.'' If that is left leaning, I do not want to 
be right. I want to stand with the American President and the American 
people and make their lives better for the 21st century.

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