[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11927]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                              A BETTER WAY

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH. Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to my 
neighbor from New Mexico offer a point which I think cannot be stated 
enough. You see, it is not enough to pass laws in Congress. The fact 
is, prosecutors and those who would uphold the law need to enforce 
existing laws and need to obey existing laws.
  Mr. Speaker, that is one of the things I heard time and again 
visiting with my constituents in the Sixth Congressional District of 
Arizona. I know that different Members of this body spent their 
district work periods in different ways. For example, the minority 
leader of this body, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Gephardt), spent 
time in Philadelphia bragging about how my friends on the left might 
take control of this institution in the year 2000.
  Here is what the minority leader said:
  ``You've got to have a combination of taking it out of the defense 
budget and raising revenue. We can argue about how to do that. We can 
close loopholes or even raise taxes to do it.''
  There is the candor attack, the honesty episode from the minority 
leader. Cut defense and raise taxes. That is their prescription for the 
future? Mr. Speaker, there is a better way.

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