[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5598]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               RENEWING THE CLINTON-GINGRICH PARTNERSHIP

  (Mr. McCLINTOCK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I was deeply saddened to see the 
President begin the sixth year of our Nation's economic malaise by 
renewing his partisan name-calling and finger-pointing on Monday.
  Fortunately, we have a model for bipartisan economic cooperation. In 
1995, when President Clinton realized that his policies weren't 
working, he reached across the aisle to work with the Republican House; 
and despite their political differences, they did some amazing things:
  They reduced Federal spending by a miraculous 40 percent of GDP;
  They produced the largest capital gains tax cut in American history;
  They reformed entitlement spending by abolishing the open-ended 
welfare system we had at the time;
  They delivered 4 years of budget surpluses.
  These bipartisan policies produced a period of prolonged economic 
expansion and unprecedented prosperity for America's middle and working 
classes.
  Republicans have been eager to repeat these successful bipartisan 
policies of the Clinton years. Why isn't the President?

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