[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 135 (Friday, September 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 23, 1994]
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  REPUBLICANS WOULD SEEK VOTES ON 10 CONTRACT POINTS UNDER OPEN RULES

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, it is amusing to listen to the whiners on 
the Democratic Party side of the aisle about the contract. I can 
understand why they do not want to make promises that they agree that 
they are actually going to keep and they are asking the American people 
to hold us to it.
  They talk about this costing $1 trillion. Most of what is in that 
cost figure is giving back to the people who earned the money, the 
money they earn to use any way they want. Only liberals could construe 
that as a cost. I would challenge the Members to read the contract.
  The other thing is not to pass it but to consider these items and to 
consider them under an open rule. The contract is not that all these 
things are going to pass but for a change we are going to discuss the 
items that the people say in every single poll they want to happen, 
that we are going to consider these things on the floor of the House 
with their Representatives, consider them under an open rule that can 
be amended and decide the 10 items that the American people want. Their 
Representatives should at least debate these things which we have been 
denied in the past and have a chance to vote on these things. That is 
something denied under the present leadership of the House of 
Representatives.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask the Members to go back and explain to the 
taxpayers not why they do not want to pass these things but why they do 
not even want to consider these things on the House floor.

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