[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 25, 1994]
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     SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY FALLS TO REPUBLICANS

  (Mr. ARMEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ARMEY. Mr. President, President Clinton was kind enough last 
night to help the Republican Party do what we have been trying to do 
since Reconstruction, and that is capture the Second Congressional 
District of Kentucky.
  Last night's election of Ron Lewis to succeed the late Bill Natcher 
has given that seat to the first non-Democrat since Burkwell C. Ritter 
of the Conservative Party in 1865.
  Ron Lewis' election has also finally laid to rest the fiction of the 
New Democrat. Voters are waking up to the difference between a genuine 
conservative and a counterfeit conservative looking for work.

  Mr. Speaker, President Clinton has become an albatross around his 
party's neck, dragging down Democrat candidates from Oklahoma to New 
York, from Los Angeles to Texas.
  Pity the poor Democrats; they have to flee in two directions at once, 
against their Republican opponent, and against their own national 
Democrat leadership.
  They have to run from the House post office scandal and the 
Whitewater affair. They have to run from government-run health care and 
higher taxes. They have to run from the Democrat leadership's obstinate 
refusal to cut spending from A to Z. And they have to run from the most 
inept foreign policy since Jimmy Carter.
  Thank you, Mr. President. You made our day.

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