William C. Baker: “Today President Clinton just introduced his budget, and if you heard, the previous speaker said the last 2 years of…”

“Today President Clinton just introduced his budget, and if you heard, the previous speaker said the last 2 years of Ronald Reagan was $150 billion in deficit and $155. Today's budget introduced by President Clinton the deficit is $210 billion. The first 4 years of the Clinton administration will show a deficit of over $1 trillion. This budget is not balanced. But it is not the President's fault. It was not the President's fault for the last 26 years. Pick your favorite, was it Carter, was it Reagan, was it Ford, was it Clinton? Who is your favorite for unbalancing the budget? And the answer is this Congress. This Congress has had its foot on the accelerator for 26 years. Never once has this Congress balanced the budget in 26 years. Well, today is President Ronald Reagan's 84th birthday, and today we are going to give President Reagan and President Clinton a little present, and that is the line-item veto, because we need new tools. We have shown we cannot balance the budget ourselves. Last week this Republican Congress passed the balanced budget amendment. This week we are going to give the President, whomever the President is, the tool to help us balance the budget with the line-item veto. Let us remember it is not the President, it is the Congress.”