Byron Dorgan: “Since John Kennedy was President. I want to add one more bit of context to this. It is not my intention to come to the…”

“Since John Kennedy was President. I want to add one more bit of context to this. It is not my intention to come to the floor--nor is it the intention of Senator Conrad, or Senator Reid, or others who will join us--and say that we on the Democratic side of the aisle, or this President, President Clinton, are infallible, that we have not made mistakes, that we are solely responsible for everything that is good. That is not my point. It is not my point. But my point is when others come to the floor and continue to kick and flail away at every tiny little thing they can find wrong, hold it up, and say, ``Isn't this ugly,'' and entertain us for hours with this today because, ``Gee, this is awful.'' Let us put in context where this country is headed, and who had the courage and the plan to move it in that direction. This President deserves some credit for that. I can name names. I will not do it. But I could just for fun go down a list of people here and what they said in 1993. They said this President is going to lead us into a recession; this plan will not work; this plan will bankrupt America; this plan will lead to slower growth; this plan will lead to less employment; this plan is in the wrong direction. It turns out that every single one of those people were dead wrong--not just wrong but dead wrong.…”