[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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 A WATERSHED VOTE IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: ONLY TIME WILL TELL

  (Mr. MAZZOLI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MAZZOLI. Mr. Speaker, only historians really have the opportunity 
to evaluate an age with accuracy and with objectively because 
historians look backward and, thus, can analyze what happened. When 
historians look at the modern history of Congress, they may look at the 
vote last Thursday as the crime bill rule as a watershed vote, a vote 
which ushered in a new area of relationships here in the House between 
the parties and among all Members of the two parties.
  When I go back home, and maybe my colleagues have had similar 
experiences, my people at home are not always asking why don't you 
folks do something, but they often ask why don't you do something 
together, why do you not try to work together more than you seem to.
  So if the vote last Thursday, with all of its pain and torment and 
confusion, does usher in a new era of working together, not at the end 
of the process but from the start and right on through, then it will 
have been a worthy exercise, and maybe as history moves ahead this may 
prove to be the watershed vote in the House of Representatives.

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