[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 134 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
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                   MORE ON THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. LaROCCO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaROCCO. Mr. Speaker, I heard that there is going to be a meeting 
in Washington, DC, on September 27, and there is going to be some sort 
of reform movement that was going to be announced. And being a moderate 
and a deficit hawk, I thought, well, there might be something good 
about this. So I took a look at it. Like Yogi Berra said, it was deja 
vu all over again. I could not believe it. I could not believe it. It 
was voodoo economics all over again. It was a joke that was being 
perpetrated on the American people.
  I came to Congress to reduce the deficit and we have done a good job 
on that. Like a lot of moderates and deficits hawks around here, I 
think we could do a better job. I worked on the Penny-Kasich efforts to 
reduce spending by $29 billion.
  Now I look at this effort and I say, where is the beef? What are the 
cuts? What are they going to be? We have heard it all before. Big tax 
breaks, increased defense spending, and all it is going to lead to is 
more deficits. It is going to lead to more deficits, my colleagues. And 
there is no explanation for it other than to say that it is political 
year posturing. It will not add up, and the American people will know 
it is nodding go to add up.
  Then on the reforms, for example, on term limits. If people look at 
the Members who are heavily supporting term limits, they are way over 
the limit they are supporting. Look at the names, look how long they 
have served, look at the hypocrisy. What a joke.
  Contract with America? I am for bottoms up politics, not top down.

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