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On the recordMarch 11, 1994
I am very, very grateful to all allowed to serve with John Kasich and the team he has put together on the Committee on the Budget, because these Members, as the Washington Post, hardly a Republican bastion, has said, they have produced a budget that adds up. You may not agree with their direction, and certainly Members who are too liberal to vote for this, Members who believe in big Government, Members who want to sustain the welfare state, will not want to vote for the Kasich budget, because it represents a basic change in where America is going. And I respect that. That is a difference of opinion about America's future. And those who believe that the welfare state has worked in Washington DC, that the murders we see every night are just a random accident, that the President was wrong when he came during the State of the Union and said beginning 30 years ago families began to decline, a date which is in fact the Great Society, according to President Clinton's own words in the State of the Union.
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Newt Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Discussing the budget and differing opinions on government spending and welfare during a House floor debate.

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