[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 67 (Wednesday, May 25, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 25, 1994]
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                           THE TURNING POINT

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, in football, the analysts always like to 
talk about the turning point of the game, the point where the winning 
team made the plays to win the day.
  Yesterday's election in the Second District of Kentucky was a turning 
point for the American people and the U.S. Congress.
  It marks the end of the status quo in the Congress and beginning of a 
new age in the Nation. It signals the start of the real reform of the 
Federal Government.
  Yesterday, Republicans won a seat that they had never won before. The 
Republican candidate, underdog Ron Lewis, overcame huge disadvantages 
by running on a platform of less taxes, less Government, and less 
regulations.
  The Democrat ran with Bill Clinton and the status quo. By voting 
against the Clinton agenda the people of the Second District of 
Kentucky rejected Government. By voting for the Republican agenda, the 
people accepted better Government.
  Mr. Speaker, as John Madden likes to say, yesterday was a turning 
point for the American people. Now is the time for better Government.

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