Martin Hoke: “Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to vote on final passage of next year's budget, I keep looking over my shoulder for Rod…”

“Mr. Speaker, as we prepare to vote on final passage of next year's budget, I keep looking over my shoulder for Rod Serling and listening for the Twilight Zone's theme song, because what I am hearing and seeing is simply unreal. We have got a $4.6 trillion public debt, a $225 billion budget deficit and yet the Clinton White House and all of its minions here in Congress have officially declared victory and they have left the budget battlefield. The President and his supporters in Congress want the American people to believe that the budget battle has been fought and won. Rod Serling, where are you when we need you to bring us back to reality? Ladies and gentlemen, the Federal Government's budget is completely out of control. Spending will continue to increase every single year under this budget and every claim to the contrary notwithstanding, this budget plan ignores all of these problems and keeps feeding the Federal Government's insatiable appetite for more taxes and more spending.”