Willie Hefner

This budget is like an ugly child. We have to tie a pork chop around its neck to get the dogs to play with it. So this is a terrible budget.

Whatever cost is incurred for this or damage they would to the grounds, who picks up the cost?

I do not know a lot about this bill we are considering, but in my part of the country, stock car racing is very, very big business, and to my knowledge, there is no foreign participation, to my knowledge, in stock car racing, either in…

it is always good for us to talk about the cuts. Everybody likes to have cuts and to get spending under control. But I am happy to see that we reinstated some of the real vital programs in education that were so sorely needed. However…

I do not know where to start here. There was a budget that was offered here that supposedly was supposed to get a lot of support, was going to cut Medicare $270 billion, was going to do $240 billion worth of tax cuts. Right now we are not…

as one who did not support the line item veto because I do not think we can always count on the President of the United States, regardless of who he is, not to have some pettiness in his surroundings. But what I do not understand is there…

The balanced budget is not what we are voting on. The gentleman is saying to the President, If you will do what we want to do, we'll give you the line-item veto this year, but everything else extending the debt limit and everything else…

taking back my time, the gentleman is setting the legislative agenda here. He could have made it in order that everything would go into effect, the line-item veto, everything, would have gone into effect. It could have been done; am I…

That was the best he could get, but I think he would agree, if it were made possible, that the line-item veto would go into effect as soon as he--I do not think he would have any problem with that.

I think we have to admire the gentleman's intestinal fortitude to come to people that think along the same lines and have the same philosophy. At least we have to give him that. He goes to where he has the potential to get even more…

I think he probably has a special interest, Mr. Dunlap. If you make the drastic cuts in Medicare and Medicaid and these other programs, it will make more room for a tax cut, which he will benefit very greatly from. So I admire the man for…

I think it is a bit hypocritical of any of us to go home to our constituents and say, ``I am not going to vote to increase the debt of this country, I am not going to vote to borrow any more money. Let the Federal Government live within…

there was a rumor out earlier today, they seem to persist around here, that they were on the 30th resolution of this CR and had not come up with one that is acceptable even for the Republican Party.

I want to speak just a minute about the debt limit. I would like to make a point. The gentleman is a man of real intelligence and very well respected here. On the extension of the debt limit, absolutely we have no choices, it has to be…

Where is your balanced budget?'' That is a nice speech, Mr. Speaker. It should make the news tonight. Mr. Speaker, I just want to make one point. My friend from Texas in his closing remarks, he said the President puts a budget on the table…

somebody said that everything had been said but everybody has not said it yet. I just could not let this pass without a couple of comments, especially to my distinguished leader of the Committee on Appropriations, talking about how…

I think the gentleman takes some poetic license here. I would like to see a copy of that letter where the President says, I will put 133,000 workers out and I will veto this bill because I do not want any reforms. The gentleman is taking…

That was not specified, that it would not apply to the President. They just have not given it to him yet.

Does my memory fail me? Did we not pass the line-item veto in the last session of Congress?

First of all, if we buy the rhetoric from our friends in the Republican party, we have to assume that there should not be any negotiations on the budget; that the President should just sign the budget that they sent to him; that it is a…

We are talking about past history, and you folks were elected saying, ``We're going to change things around here.'' But this is not changing things for the better. This is human misery. VA hospitals in North Carolina. These people are in…

but the point I am making, the gentleman stood in the well and he said the President said, I will put 133,000 people out of work. I do not believe he has that in print from the President of the United States. I do not care what rhetoric he…

I would like to see the quote in the letter that says, I will put 133,000 people out of work. The gentleman may produce that.

I just want to make a point, a point that has been missed here. I have been around here for a long time, and this body has been here for a long time. It is the President's prerogative to veto bills. This should have been worked out for…

I think the gentlemen are missing the point here. We are talking about a balanced budget all the time. We are talking about opening up the Government. All Presidents past, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, when they…