[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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                         GROW UP, MR. PRESIDENT

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, there is something very disturbing about 
watching the President withdraw from reality and say things that are 
simply not true as an act of denial. In both the Wall Street Journal 
and the Los Angeles Times today, there are polls indicating that the 
public rejects the Clinton plan. Not the Republicans, the public, the 
American people. That the more they have learned, the more opposed they 
are to the Clinton plan.
  The President's reaction yesterday was to blame Republicans for not 
cooperating. Senator Chafee said correctly last night, it is simply not 
true. Republicans have been cooperating on passing NAFTA. We are 
currently cooperating on both MFN for China and in trying to help with 
the GATT agreement. We Republicans helped sustain the space station. 
Republicans have helped develop aid to Russia. Republicans are willing 
to work this evening, this afternoon, at lunch today with the President 
on health care. But we are not preparing to ram down the throat of the 
American people a big-bureaucracy, big-tax, left-wing bill that makes 
no sense. The President just needs to grow up a little bit and 
recognize that his idea has failed, the time has come to work together 
as adults, and we are ready.

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