[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 120 (Sunday, August 21, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: August 21, 1994]
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                          THE REPUBLICAN THEME

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I want to associate myself with the 
remarks of the gentleman who just spoke, the Republican gentleman from 
New York. I do so being one of the people that is the problem here. I 
am one of those who voted not to let the crime bill come up. I am a 
Democrat. I opposed my leadership. I opposed our President.
  So now, after about 3 days of negotiations, what have we been treated 
to this morning? Our friends on the far right taking the well, still 
not satisfied with the compromise. Still not satisfied. They found one 
thing to be for, the one thing that kills the crime bill for the rest 
of the year is the one thing they are for. I was not sure that 
President Clinton had it right a couple months ago, but I think he does 
now.
  Republicans, almost throughout their history and yet today, can do 
one thing real well, and it is this, ``no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 
no.''
  Today we ought to say ``yes.''

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