[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10672]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND OPINION

  (Mr. CALVERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, there is a difference between fact and 
opinion. I think any objective observer would look at the facts and 
agree with this conclusion: We have a part-time President and a full-
time fund-raiser.
  Just consider the facts: Yesterday the President's New York City 
fund-raiser was his 100th of the year, yesterday, the 100th fund-raiser 
of the year. Meanwhile he has had only two cabinet meetings. For those 
of us who have not had higher math, who were raised on whole math, rain 
forest math or other liberal nonsense, that works out to approximately 
one cabinet meeting for every 50 fund-raisers. Of course, we are not 
sure exactly how much important business was discussed at those two 
cabinet meetings aside from denials, retractions and half apologies.
  This Congress has put aside $1.4 trillion for Social Security, passed 
a balanced budget, IRS reform and tax cuts, making it perhaps the most 
successful Congress in a generation. Meanwhile the part-time President 
allows Saddam Hussein to thumb his nose at us, North Korea to threaten 
its neighbors and a national missile defense system to remain on the 
shelf.

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