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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: Would that he only would help us put this Nation on a fiscal diet to help straighten out the priorities with tax reform…

On the recordJune 19, 1996
Would that he only would help us put this Nation on a fiscal diet to help straighten out the priorities with tax reform for the middle class which he promised and then backed away from; with welfare reform, as the claim was to end welfare as we know it, but vetoing that meaningful welfare reform which we sent him and a myriad of other projects that he campaigned on and then backed away from. I can appreciate his exercise regimen, but I do wish that his exercises in his role as chief executive would have more followthrough and be more in tone with reality.
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NAN A. S. HAYWORTH
New York

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Criticizing the President for not following through on fiscal and welfare reforms.

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