[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 25445]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH?

  (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, there is a simple question we confront 
tonight as we have moved in this common sense Congress to reach 
compromise and consensus in a bipartisan fashion. That is, after 
agreeing to many provisions on both sides of the aisle, with what some 
would call reasonable and others would call overly generous spending 
packages, Mr. Speaker, we are facing this question: How much is enough?
  I would turn to the legislation we passed at midweek last week in 
this 106th Congress, reasonable plans that offered tax relief, but more 
importantly, ordered a Medicare refinement and restoration plan needed 
for our hospitals, needed for our home health care, needed for our 
nursing homes, and other provisions actually requested by the President 
of the United States who came to Arizona to embrace a new markets 
initiative, part and parcel of the bill we passed last week, and yet 
sadly so many people on the other side voted against it.
  Mr. Speaker, how much is enough?

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