[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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             DEOCRATS RENEW PLEDGE TO FAMILIES AND WORKERS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sangmeister). Under the speaker's 
announced policy of February 11, 1994, and June 10, 1994, the 
gentlewoman from Washington [Mrs. Unsoeld] is recognized during morning 
business for 1 minute.
  (Mrs. UNSOELD asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. UNSOELD. Mr. Speaker, in a recent letter promoting the House 
Republican contract with America, Republican Whip Newt Gingrich asked 
potential contributors, ``Will you help me draft the Republican 
legislative agenda for the 104th Congress?''
  Today those Republican would-be Members of the 104th Congress have 
gathered in the Nation's Capitol to pledge allegiance to this agenda 
written by Newt Gingrich and D.C. lobbyists willing to pay the price.
  The Republicans say they advocate change. Their notion of change is 
to return to the spend and borrow policies of the previous Republican 
administrations that took this great Nation from being the largest 
creditor to the largest debtor nation in 12 years. Their notion of 
change is to yell about new taxes when they are really seeking to 
provide new benefits to the most wealthy 1.2 percent of all Americans. 
It is the Democrats who are bringing down the deficit.
  Mr. Speaker, as the Republicans pledge allegiance to the agenda of 
the wealthy contributors to Newt Gingrich, let the Democrats renew 
their pledge to the families and workers of middle-class America.

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