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

  (Mrs. MEEK of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Speaker, next week 156 Republican 
candidates for Congress and all Republican incumbents will gather in 
Washington to sign a contract with America. It is a one-sided contract 
which only the Republican leadership had a hand in drafting.
  The so-called contract spells out a series of steps that Republicans 
promise voters to take if they gain control of the House. They promise 
to pass a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
  At the same time they pledge to bring to the floor and work for 
enactment of enormous tax cuts. The last time we heard Republicans 
saying they could balance the budget while cutting taxes was in 1981. 
The contradiction in policy more than tripled the national debt in just 
12 years; the interest payments are now a seventh of the budget whose 
size the tax-cutters so regularly deplore.
  As usual, the Republicans are talking out of both sides of their 
mouths--offering us false promises of tax cuts, reduced deficits, and 
balanced budgets.
  Well, I do not know who is advising all these Republican candidates--
who all claim to be agents of change--to come to Washington and sign a 
contract written by the Republican leadership, but I sure hope it has a 
sanity clause.
  By the way, it is no secret that there is a huge Republican 
fundraiser in Washington later that night. Which is probably the real 
reason these Republican candidates are coming.

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