[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                    FRAUDULENT CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sangmeister). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of February 11, 1994, and June 10, 1994, the gentleman 
from Georgia [Mr. Lewis] is recognized during morning business for 1 
minute.
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to declare that the 
American people will not be fooled by the so-called contract with 
America signed by many of our colleagues on the other side of the 
aisle. The American people are sophisticated, intelligent, and astute 
to know that this contract is a plate of warmed over, half-baked ideas 
from past Republican administrations. These ideas did not work in the 
past, nor will they work in the future.
  This so-called contract with America is neither worthy of the paper 
it is printed on nor the ink used on the paper. Why won't the 
Republicans be honest with the American people? The people are tired of 
the smoke and mirrors and the voodoo economics.
  We have a truth-in-lending law; I believe it is time for a truth-in-
campaigning law.
  If the Republicans are serious about supporting term limits, they 
should simply stop running for office. No one has put a gun to anyone's 
head forcing him or her to run for Congress.
  I believe the American people have had enough of this political 
theater; this warmed over melodrama. The American people will reject 
this fraudulent contract.

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