[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 5 (Tuesday, February 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H110]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             THE CLINTON BUDGET: A RETURN TO BIG GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. CHABOT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. CHABOT. Mr. Speaker, remember when President Clinton told us that 
the era of big government is over? Well, apparently he has had a change 
of heart, because his latest budget proposal is a true monument to big 
government excess. Billions and billions and billions in new taxes, and 
billions and billions and billions in new Federal spending. So much for 
presidential promises, welcome back, big government.
  This Congress cannot and will not accept a return to the tax and 
spend days of old. Because the taxpayers in 1994 installed a new 
majority in Congress, family income is up, interest rates are down, 
unemployment is down, and tax relief is finally on the way. And the 
budget will soon show a surplus for the first time in a generation. It 
is no time to turn back the clock.
  Mr. Speaker, the President's budget completely ignores last year's 
balanced budget agreement by creating a variety of new spending 
programs and a host of new taxes. That is not what the taxpayers had in 
mind. Let us balance the budget. Let us cut taxes, let us do it now.

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