NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I am here, Mr. Speaker, to use this time to address what is not a credibility gap, but instead a credibility canyon.…”

“I am here, Mr. Speaker, to use this time to address what is not a credibility gap, but instead a credibility canyon. Indeed, all members of the new majority, as well as members of the minority, welcome the President of the United States to this Chamber tonight, where he will stand at this podium and deliver his State of the Union Message. To quote one pundit in this town, he said, ``Heretofore most State of the Union Addresses by most chief executives have been forgivable.'' Well, at the danger of incurring the wrath of that pundit, Mr. Speaker, let us remember, let us remember the words of our President in his previous State of the Union Messages. First dealing with the budget. Quoting now from his 1993 address: The plan substantially reduces the Federal deficit honestly and credibly by using in the beginning the most conservative estimates of Government revenues, not as the executive branch has done so often in the past using the most optimistic ones.”