W. Weldon said "Mr. Speaker, we have to look at the facts, and the facts are quite different than the way my friend and colleague presented them to the American people. First of all, as all of us in this body--my good friend and colleague is here. Thank goodness. We can have a little dialog here. As my good friend and colleague knows and as all of us in this body know, the President does not spend one dime of money unless it has been first of all appropriated by the Congress, and the House and the Senate meet in their 13 various appropriation bill processes to decide how much money we are going to spend in each of 13 different categories of the Federal budget, and our good friend is a member of that Committee on Appropriations. The process is set up in such a way that the President is given 13 opportunities to veto the amount of spending set by the Congress." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 17, 1995

Mr. Speaker, we have to look at the facts, and the facts are quite different than the way my friend and colleague presented them to the American people. First of all, as all of us in this body--my good friend and colleague is here. Thank goodness. We can have a little dialog here. As my good friend and colleague knows and as all of us in this body know, the President does not spend one dime of money unless it has been first of all appropriated by the Congress, and the House and the Senate meet in their 13 various appropriation bill processes to decide how much money we are going to spend in each of 13 different categories of the Federal budget, and our good friend is a member of that Committee on Appropriations. The process is set up in such a way that the President is given 13 opportunities to veto the amount of spending set by the Congress.

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W. Weldon

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Addressing spending during the Reagan and Bush administrations in response to a colleague's remarks.

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