[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[House]
[Page 22999]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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             WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE FACTS AND NOT AT FICTION

  (Mr. LANTOS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1


minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LANTOS. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend to speak this morning, but 
one of my colleagues on the other side aroused my interest and 
curiosity sufficiently to make me rise and speak to this issue.
  Mr. Reagan's new biography is already controversial because it is 
predicated on the insights of a fictional character. Well, we have just 
had a fictional representation of what happened to the American economy 
in recent years. It was in 1993--when without a single Republican vote 
in the House or in the Senate--we changed the course of this economy 
which is now resulting in huge budget surpluses.
  It is remarkable that a book that has not even been released already 
has such a major impact that my colleagues on the other side engage in 
a fictional representation of what happened to the American economy 
during the last 7 years.
  Our economic indices are at an all-time favorable position; low 
unemployment, low inflation, high productivity, and the Clinton-Gore 
administration was in charge.

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