[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 76 (Thursday, June 16, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: June 16, 1994]
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                         DEMOCRATIC INITIATIVE

  (Mr. DERRICK asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DERRICK. Mr. Speaker, when Democrat Bill Clinton assumed the 
Presidency in January 1993, Congress knew its priorities--jumpstarting 
the economy, reducing the deficit, and returning America to a 
prosperous and hopeful track.
  Congressional Democrats and the executive branch immediately began 
working together. After dismissing feel-good political answers and 
enduring blowhard opposition, Democrats put together a tough fiscal 
plan for realistic spending and policy changes.
  Critics--including all congressional Republicans--claimed the plan 
was a job killer. They said it would ruin the economy and destroy the 
middle class.
  One year after the plan was approved the economy has generated 3.1 
million private-sector jobs--about 6,000 jobs each day for the last 16 
months.
  That is the result of Democratic initiative--in the face of 
contentious partisan opposition Democrats passed a tough and sound plan 
that has proved its critics dead wrong.

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