[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 54 (Tuesday, May 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H2752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  THE BLOATED FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY IS ALIVE AND WELL UNDER THE CLINTON 
                             ADMINISTRATION

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, it was just 2 short years ago that the 
Clinton administration proclaimed that the era of big government was 
over. My, oh my, how quickly things have changed, Mr. Speaker.
  Now judging from his most recent budget proposal, the era of abusive 
bloated Federal bureaucracy is alive and well under the Clinton 
administration. What other possible explanation could there be for $128 
billion in new taxes in his 1999 budget proposal?
  In all fairness to the President, however, he has the right, as he 
has in the past, to propose all of the tax increases that he desires. 
Certainly it is his prerogative as the top elected official of this 
country.
  However, Mr. Speaker, I think most people will see through this big 
government, big tax increase proposal for exactly what it is: a thinly 
disguised effort by the administration to once again stick its greedy 
hands into the pockets of every working man and woman in America.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of any money we all may have 
left.

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