Sam Gejdenson: “Mr. Speaker, I am just stunned to hear my friend from California endorsing President Clinton's agenda and his successes…”

“Mr. Speaker, I am just stunned to hear my friend from California endorsing President Clinton's agenda and his successes, and it is so nice to see him recite all the advances that have occurred under this Democratic President. Now he did not give the President any credit, but we cannot expect him to go that far. But it is at least a refreshing opportunity to hear him point out that under the Democratic leadership of President Clinton we have made tremendous progress from the setting of budget priorities that began with the Democratically-controlled Congress and the President's first day in office, and he has kept us on track. He has prevented some of the egregious kinds of policies that we found in the early Reagan years, which frankly some of this budget debate and the Republican demands seem to want to reinstate tax cuts that will cost the Treasury upwards of $250 billion in the outyears which will once again balloon the deficit. Their solution, of course, is to give the richest another tax break while the poorest and the working poor are once again disadvantaged. We are happy to see the Republicans recognize the wisdom of President Clinton's budget priority and policies today.”