[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 134 (Thursday, September 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 22, 1994]
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                         THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA

  (Ms. SLAUGHTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SLAUGHTER. Mr. Speaker, next Tuesday, when all the Republican 
challengers line up on the Capitol steps, and I think they will all be 
here, I want my colleagues to remember that word around this town is 
that they are coming because they were told that failure to show up 
would prevent them from gaining the committee assignments that they 
want and the money that they need to campaign.
  They are coming sight unseen, not to bring an agenda to Washington 
from the districts in which they wish to represent, but they are coming 
to Washington to take an agenda back.
  Where did this agenda come from? Whose is it? Who has looked at it?
  Well, everyone who has had an opportunity to overlook it says it 
would plunge the United States back into the morass from which we are 
finally escaping.
  This morning in one of our papers we read a very interesting thing 
about where the agenda came from. A letter went out from the Republican 
leader, the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Gingrich], to some of the 
wealthiest people in America to contribute heavily to his PAC, which 
does not share those names or that agenda with us or the people.
  However, for a goodly size of money, good amount changing hands, 
those are the people who were allowed to write an agenda that they 
expect us to live with.

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