[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 21 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H854]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          OUR LIBERAL FRIENDS

  (Mr. DeLAY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, the President and his allies in this House 
are calling us the Do-Nothing Congress. I agree. We are the do-nothing-
the-liberals-like Congress. Maybe that is why the poll numbers for 
Congress are at an all-time high, because this Congress will not do 
anything to the American people. We will not raise their taxes, we will 
not stick them with unfunded mandates, we will not drive their small 
businesses out of business, we will not kill the economy, we will not 
spend the surplus, we will not waste their hard-earned money. I 
understand that the minority leadership has another agenda and we are 
hearing it this morning. When Democrats have another so-called agenda, 
the American taxpayer should have a panic attack. You can say this 
about our liberal friends on the other side of the aisle. They got what 
it takes to take what you got. Let us face the facts. The American 
people want a break from more wasteful Washington programs no matter 
what our liberal friends might say.

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