NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I am so glad to see my friend from Connecticut here, because once again he returns to the key point in this debate. We…”

“I am so glad to see my friend from Connecticut here, because once again he returns to the key point in this debate. We are trying to realize budgetary savings, not by eviscerating programs but by reducing the rate of growth. I cannot help but note with great interest when our friend who visited two nights ago, the gentleman who lives in the big White House at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, talks about budgetary savings, he is talking about the same type of exercise, yet he remains unchallenged on that by our friends on this side. Yet that curious mathematical exercise, where increases are called cuts, runs rampant in this institution; and I salute my good friend from Connecticut for once again bringing it to our attention. I would like to inquire of my friends from Connecticut, because this is something that intrigued me: In the latest budget our President has offered us, he himself talked about the days of big Government being over; but as I understand it, his plan calls for some $200 billion in higher taxes and some $350 billion in additional spending over and above the real savings that you have labored so hard for to try and right-size this Government. That, to me, is especially confounding, and I am wondering why the reports of, dare I say it, budgetary neglect or overspending are not really chronicled in the White House budget offer. It is very curious what transpires inside this beltway with the representations of certain budgetary exercises.”