On the recordMarch 5, 1996
That is right. Yet, as the gentleman points out, the President campaigned on promises of balancing the Federal budget, ending welfare as we know it, as you pointed out, cutting middle-class taxes. The middle-class tax cut was the centerpiece of his economic plan, which he called Putting People First. He certainly did not make good on any of those promises during the first 2 years of his administration, when he had a Democratic majority in the Congress to work with. He has turned around, of course, in this session of Congress, vetoed legislation that would accomplish all three of those fundamental promises to the American people that we, the Republican majority here in the Congress, enacted with very little support from the other side of the aisle. There is a certain irony, again, in a Republican majority of Congress trying to help a Democratic President make good on his fundamental campaign promises.
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