[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 25, 1994]
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                 AMERICANS ARE REJECTING BIG GOVERNMENT

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, in Texas, Virginia, New York, Los Angeles, 
Oklahoma, now in Kentucky and across the Nation, Americans are 
rejecting big Government, the tax-and-spend tenet of the Democrat Party 
and Bill Clinton.
  This trend began in my State of Georgia. Only a few weeks after the 
1992 election, Georgians elected Republican Paul Coverdell to the 
Senate.
  Yesterday, a district that had not sent a Republican to Congress 
since the Civil War, elected Ron Lewis its Representative. This was a 
stunning upset, but we should not be surprised. Time and time again, at 
the ballot box, voters have told the Democrats what they think of their 
big-Government policies.
  The Democrats' leaders will try to convince themselves and the Nation 
that the Kentucky race was not a referendum on Bill Clinton. But the 
election of Ron Lewis should be a message to us all. Kentuckians, like 
the rest of America, do not trust the Democrat Party and certainly do 
not want the Democrat-controlled Government getting bigger by taxing us 
more.

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