[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 5 (Tuesday, February 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H111]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                PRESIDENT'S BUDGET IS BUSINESS AS USUAL

  (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, a year ago the President proclaimed the 
era of big government is over. And then recently he said, it is now the 
end of an era, meaning we have a surplus and we had a lot of ways to 
spend it. So I guess the era that big government was over was only 
about an 11-month period of history in the United States. Now we are 
back to the government spending as usual.
  The President came on like gangbusters, Santa Claus on Christmas 
morning, with all kinds of high taxes, new spending programs, old 
Democrat stuff, tried and true methods of buying blocs of voters one at 
a time.
  One thing the President forgot in his speech, he said the deficit had 
11 zeros. Actually, the debt has more zeros than the deficit. I believe 
the President confused the debt with the deficit, and he thinks we have 
paid off the debt.
  Mr. Speaker, the children of the United States of America, and all 
others, are faced with over a $5 trillion debt. We have got to pay down 
the debt. That should be the highest priority with the surplus.

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