[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 19 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H702]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                HISTORIC CROSSROADS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, we are at a historic crossroads in American 
history. For the first time since 1969 we have a budget surplus.
  As we stand at this crossroads, we see the path fork in front of us 
and divide in two ways. We can follow Bill Clinton to the left. Bill 
Clinton wants to lead us down the run down and rutted road that takes 
us backwards to the era of big government.
  Or we can walk the road that leads to the right. This path leads us 
away from big government spending and leads us closer to familiar 
benchmarks, like personal responsibility and personal freedom.
  The road to the right gives the American people the power to spend 
their own money, however they see fit, rather than spending it on some 
far-off Washington bureaucracy in the form of new government spending.
  We face an enormous choice today, Mr. Speaker. We can take the road 
to the left and continue to make the Federal Government bigger and more 
bloated, or we can go to the right and give the American people more 
prosperity and more freedom.
  We have seen where the path leads to the left, Mr. Speaker. We do not 
want to travel down that road again.

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