J. Exon: “It may well be we can shorten down the time. We have been trying to move this ahead, move forward. I did not realize we…”

“It may well be we can shorten down the time. We have been trying to move this ahead, move forward. I did not realize we would be getting into a rehash of what we did 2 years ago with the President's budget. Once again, the Senator from Missouri is certainly entitled to his position. He indicates that the budget that we passed 2 years ago, the President's budget, has hurt jobs creation, has been devastating to the country. Evidently, from what he said, it has hurt employment. The facts of the matter are that those same things were said in one form or another by those on that side of the aisle during the debate, and we passed that proposition with all Democrats supporting that to get it by, without a single Republican vote in either the House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate. The facts of the matter are, as we explained yesterday, that primarily because of that, coupled with the excellent leadership of President Bill Clinton, this Nation has been on a steady, logical growth pattern in all areas. I remember hearing people on that side of the aisle who attacked that budget at the time saying it would be devastating to the economy of the United States of America, that we would never recover if we passed this. We have more than recovered, we have had one of the most astonishing periods of growth in American economy since that was passed that we have ever seen.”