NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Reclaiming my time, and again I thank the gentleman from Georgia for bringing forth this very cogent observation. And…”

“Reclaiming my time, and again I thank the gentleman from Georgia for bringing forth this very cogent observation. And again, Mr. Speaker, we should note this is not said with venom nor vitriol, not in the form of a playground taunt, but, really, Mr. Speaker, just to examine the record of the gentleman who resides at the big White House at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, for if words are to mean something, actions should correspond to the words. And, indeed, as my friend from Georgia points out, we have a President who campaigned in 1992 on balancing the Federal budget in 5 years. Yet when confronted with a realistic plan that actually gave him a 2-year grace period, if you will, a balanced budget plan which was introduced by the new majority, back I believe last October, the President chose to veto that; instead putting in its place a document of suspicious foundation from this standpoint, Mr. Speaker. It would be akin, and I will use a personal example, I am fighting the battle of the bulge around my waistline, it would be akin to saying to someone we are going to give you a year to lose 50 pounds. We ask you to lose two pounds in the first 50 weeks of the year, and in the final 2 weeks of the year we ask you to lose the remaining 48 pounds. On paper the mathematical operation can work, in real life that would be very difficult. That is what we are dealing with.”