[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 145 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H10677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONGRESS

  (Mr. THUNE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. THUNE. Mr. Speaker, for 40 years the liberal Congress spent all 
their time trying to figure out ways to spend the American people's 
money and build a bigger Federal Government. Now they are accusing us 
of being a do-nothing Congress. They are right. By their definition, we 
have done nothing to raise taxes, we have done nothing to build new 
Federal bureaucracies, we have done nothing to take power from 
hardworking Americans and give it to Washington bureaucrats.
  However, we have balanced the budget for the first time in 30 years, 
we have cut taxes on hardworking Americans for the first time in 16 
years, saved Medicare, reformed welfare, and reformed the IRS. At the 
same time we have lowered interest rates on student loans. The liberals 
are right. We have done nothing liberal. But we have done a lot for the 
future of the American people.

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