[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 142 (Saturday, October 10, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10511]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT REFLECTS VALUES THAT MAKE AMERICA GREAT

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, allow me to restate what President 
Eisenhower said a long time ago, and I quote: ``In all those things 
which deal with people, be human. In all those things which deal with 
people's money, or their economy, or their form of government, be 
conservative and do not be afraid to use the word.''
  And so today, Republicans come forward with programs in which there 
are such words as ``balanced budgets,'' and ``cutting expenditures,'' 
and all the kind of things that mean this economy must be conservative, 
it must be solvent.
  But they also come forward and say we are concerned with every 
American's health, with a decent house for him, and we are concerned 
that he will have a chance for health and his children for education. 
We are going to see that he has power available to him. We are going to 
see that everything takes place that will enrich his life and let him 
as an individual, hard-working American citizen have full opportunity 
to do for his children and his family what any decent American should 
want to do.
  These remarks were made by President Eisenhower in 1954, and they are 
still ringing true today for the American people and the Republican 
party.
  Let the other side stop their demagoguing and begin supporting a 
conservative government that reflects rather than undermines the values 
that have made America great: Faith, family, personal freedom and 
responsibility.

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