Todd Tiahrt: “we are back and we have learned a lot. No. 1, you cannot negotiate with a ``say anything, do nothing'' President. It is…”

“we are back and we have learned a lot. No. 1, you cannot negotiate with a ``say anything, do nothing'' President. It is clear that he is for big government, he is for higher taxes, and he is for more spending. The President condones wasteful spending in the Government. We have ``out of town'' Brown, Secretary of Commerce, who has overextended his travel budget. We have Secretary O'Leary, who is a congenital flier. We cannot keep her in town. But this is just the tip of the iceberg. We have massive wastes of Federal spending in our bureaucracy and we must downsize it. Mr. Speaker, we are back, we are for a balanced budget, we are on track to get there. We are going to continue to keep pressure on the administration. We are going to reform Medicaid through block grants, we are going to preserve and protect Medicare, and we are going to try to give back to American families some of what they lost in the 1990 tax increase and in the 1993 tax increase. So we are working that hard and we are going to continue on that path.”