[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               THANKS TO THOSE INVOLVED IN BUDGET PROCESS

  (Mr. KASICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KASICH. Mr. Speaker, I want to take a moment to thank the members 
of the Committee on the Budget, in particular the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss), for his great work throughout this process.
  And, of course, the people who are the unsung heroes, the members of 
the staff, Wayne Struble and his whole team. They have done a fantastic 
job and worked many late nights.
  The same would go for Mr. Kahn, the staff director of the minority 
side. Without the staff and without the members of the Committee on the 
Budget, of course, we would never be successful.
  Furthermore, I would like to just spend a second to pay a little 
tribute to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt), because 
while he is as tough a partisan fighter as I have ever been up against, 
at the same time he does it with style. He is not looking to be a 
cheap-shot artist. And when he can give us a break on our side, he 
does, and we try to do the same for him.
  I think the Committee on the Budget, really, over the years, has been 
a place where we have been able to fight it out, yet still be collegial 
at the same time.

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  So I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt); 
the members of his staff; my staff, in particular Mr. Struble, and all 
the folks under him; the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Chambliss); the 
members of the Committee on the Budget; and the members of the 
Republican Conference; and the Whip team for their work.

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