[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 148 (Friday, October 16, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H11031]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      BUDGET AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTS COMMONSENSE CONSERVATIVE VALUES

  (Mr. TALENT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TALENT. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in support of the 
recently concluded budget agreement. In fact, the more I look at that 
budget agreement, the more I like it.
  It begins to implement the Dollars to the Classroom principle, 
whereby we defund Federal bureaucracies and empower parents and 
teachers. It provides that with the Census, we are going to count 
people. We are not going to guess how many people are in the United 
States. It says we are going to stop child porn on the Internet.
  We are going to reinvigorate the war on drugs. We are going to spend 
$9.5 billion on the national defense, money that is vital to America's 
greatness. We are going to have the first ever IMF reforms, and all 
this on top of a balanced budget with a surplus, tax relief, and 
welfare reform.
  It is an implementation of commonsense conservative values, Mr. 
Speaker. It looks like we are going to have support from the other side 
of the aisle. I hope we come back here as soon as possible and pass it.

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