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Frank Riggs: “Yesterday the President convened a meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House and he urged…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 1995
Yesterday the President convened a meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership at the White House and he urged the Congress to get on with the task of balancing the Federal budget, reforming the welfare system, cutting taxes, particularly on middle-class families, and controlling Medicare costs. Mr. Speaker, it is good to hear the President weigh in in this debate. Yet I predict that the response that he will get from the Congress and his party is a stony silence. How ironic that it is going to take the new Republican majority to help this President, who as a candidate promised to end welfare as we know it and cut taxes, make good on those promises.
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Frank Riggs
California
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Discussing the President's call for budget and welfare reform during a congressional meeting.

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