[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 91 (Thursday, July 14, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 14, 1994]
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                SUCCESS OF THE DEMOCRATS' ECONOMIC PLAN

  (Mr. GEPHARDT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GEPHARDT. Mr. Speaker, 1 year ago, the Democrats in this House 
fought for an economic plan to reverse the economic decay and decline 
that had plagued our Nation for 4 years--by cutting Federal spending, 
slashing the Federal deficit, and giving tax breaks to working people.
  The Republican Party, for all their talk of fiscal responsibility, 
refused to lift a finger to help us. They called our plan a job 
killer--even though it has created more than 6,000 private sector jobs 
every single day.
  They said it was a one-way ticket to a recession--a subject the 
Republicans know a thing or two about, since they plunged our Nation 
into recession during the Bush years.
  But now the verdict is in. We have more than twice the economic 
growth of the Bush years. New jobs are being created all over the 
country--more in 18 months than during the entire Bush administration. 
More new businesses are being incorporated than ever before in our 
history.
  There is a story behind those statistics. When you walk through my 
own town of St. Louis, you see Help Wanted sings in shop windows. There 
is so much new construction taking place, they have issued a nationwide 
call for construction workers, because there are not enough to meet the 
demand.
  We still have a long way to go--more jobs to create, more businesses 
and families to help.
  But as we move toward this November's elections, the American people 
have to ask themselves a serious question:
  Can we really trust a party that played politics when we were trying 
to make serious economic policy?
  If the Republicans still think the Democratic economic plan is a job 
killer, then let us face it: the jobs they are talking about must be 
their own.

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