William Bryan: “If I may very briefly respond to my friend from Mississippi, and then I will yield to my friend from Arkansas, it seems…”

“If I may very briefly respond to my friend from Mississippi, and then I will yield to my friend from Arkansas, it seems to me that we talk a lot about sacrifice--the need for us to notch up the proverbial belt and slim down, streamline Government, all of these sorts of things, and we ask most segments in our society to do more with less. I must say, with all due respect to my friend from Mississippi, it seems to me that those who are part of this corporate entitlement program that has been culturally ingrained as part of this Federal budget process, we never ask them. I do not think it is asking too much of our friends, the McDonald's hamburger people, Pillsbury, the Welch's, Sunkist, Sun Maid, Seagrams, all these other marvelous corporations to say, look, this is a program we thought we could afford at one time but this is 1996 and you folks have followed our debate on balancing the budget. Both parties, both the Congress and the White House have agreed that a balanced budget ought to be our goal, that ought to be a national priority. There are benefits that inure to our society, to our economy, and we cannot do that if we continue the old ways, as comfortable as they may have become.”