William Tauzin: “Let me first thank my friend, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], for assuming my position as the second sponsor of…”

“Let me first thank my friend, the gentleman from Illinois [Mr. Hyde], for assuming my position as the second sponsor of the Barton-Tauzin amendment which has been an amendment before this body for many years. I can think of no finer gentleman to assume this role in this new majority than my friend, Mr. Hyde. I also want to congratulate my friend, the gentleman from Texas [Mr. Pete Geren], for the role he is playing in the effort to pass the Barton-Hyde-Geren-Tauzin--many Members--bipartisan amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a required balanced budget and to require it in the right way. I want to make just three points tonight: In this age of cyberspace and high-speed technology in communications there is a word that is very current and very popular right now called a new way of seeing things. It is a paradigm, it is called, a new way of looking at things, a new way of seeing things, a new order of things. The old paradigm here in the U.S. Congress and in America has been very simple. People elected Members to go to Congress to get back as much of their tax dollars as they could, and bring them back home and spend them at home, and let me tell my colleagues that paradigm has worked wonderfully.”