[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 25, 1994]
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                  A SMALL BUSINESSMAN WITH A BIG IDEA

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, yesterday Republican Ron Lewis made 
history by beating Democrat Joe Prather in a district that has not sent 
a Republican to Congress in 130 years.
  Republican Ron Lewis is a small businessman with a big idea: that 
America needs less of what President Clinton wants: less government, 
less spending, and less taxes.
  The voters of Kentucky got a chance to express what the rest of 
America is thinking, that it is a Democrat House, a Democrat Senate, a 
Democrat President and Democrat gridlock that is doing what they want 
undone, and un-doing what they want done; so they elected a Republican 
to get a solution.
  Despite being the second election in a row where voters have overcome 
large Democrat odds to send a message and a Republican to Washington, 
my friends on the other side want you to believe this election was not 
about them; that it was not about their policies, and that it certainly 
was not about their President.
  My colleagues on this side hope they will continue to believe that.

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