Mark Neumann: “11 years ago in 1987, a Democrat Congress sent President Reagan a massive omnibus bill. It weighed about 24 pounds, had…”

“11 years ago in 1987, a Democrat Congress sent President Reagan a massive omnibus bill. It weighed about 24 pounds, had about 2100 pages. And in his State of the Union address the next year, President Reagan took that bill, slammed it on the table and said, Congress should not send another one of these. If you do, I will not sign it. Today we have the reverse. A Democrat President is forcing this Congress to pass a massive omnibus bill on a veto threat that if we spend anything less, he will veto it and shut down the government. Ten years ago that omnibus bill cost the taxpayers $604 billion. This year's omnibus bill costs them $577 billion. Ten years ago the omnibus bill totaled 2100 pages. This year, it is 4800 pages, more than twice as long, and weighs 40 pounds. The bottom line, President Clinton has effectively denied the American people a tax cut for the middle class, for the families, and he did so saying that we cannot spend that surplus, we have to spend it on Social Security next year. But for two weeks, Bill Clinton sent up one demand after another, give me a billion here, a billion here, a billion here, all to be spent in Washington. Now the taxpayers know the truth about Bill Clinton. He is all too willing to raid that Social Security trust fund to satisfy his demands for more Washington spending.”