[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 135 (Friday, September 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 23, 1994]
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                         CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. LINDER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LINDER. Mr. Speaker, this contract with America seems to have 
struck a raw nerve on the other side. I do not know why. Maybe 
Tuesday's election exacerbated that problem.
  The contract with America is a set of ideas that will change the way 
Congress does business.
  The plan will be unveiled next Tuesday, yet somehow the Democrat 
leadership has scored all 10 bills and they claim the contract will be 
costly. I must say it is incredible that the Democrat leadership could 
not get a cost analysis of their health care bills after 18 months, but 
they are able to appraise 10 bills they have not even seen.
  The Democrat leadership is launching these desperate attacks because, 
the fact is, they are on the wrong side of each of the issues 
enumerated in the contract.
  These ideas were not handed down from on high. We have asked 
Americans across the country what they would do to fix Congress. The 
contract with America is their recommendation.
  The Democrats' inflated price tag is a lame attempt to take the wind 
out of the sails of congressional change. It will not work. The 
American people know the Democrats have been at the helm too long and 
have charted a course of big Government and bigger taxes.

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