[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                        GOP CONTRACT IS A FRAUD

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Sangmeister). Under the Speaker's 
announced policy of February 11, 1994, and June 10, 1994, the 
gentlewoman from Oregon [Ms. Furse] is recognized during morning 
business for 2 minutes.
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, today they have come to Washington, DC, to 
sign a blindfold contract with the Republican leadership. And my 
opponent has come to sign what he calls a contract with America, when 
in fact the only contract he is signing is this: He collects a check 
from the special interests tonight while he promises to waste 
Oregonians' hard-earned tax dollars.
  We cannot add more debt to be paid for by our children and our 
grandchildren.
  This year we have reduced the deficit. It is down 40 percent, and we 
are on the road to more reduction. But this Republican contract 
increases Pentagon spending and decreases senior benefits, and it 
increases the debt. In Oregon we know there is lots more Pentagon waste 
than there are senior protections.
  My opponent has come to Washington to march lockstep with the 
Republican leadership, but the voters in my home State of Oregon do not 
want someone to come to Washington to get his marching orders. They 
want an independent voice, they want to work toward solutions that make 
our communities stronger.
  I am proud to say that I have a contract with Oregon, and this 
contract is to make our streets safer, to reduce waste, especially 
Pentagon waste, and to reduce the deficit and to insure a woman's right 
to choose.
  Also, we have a contract, and I have been part of that contract, to 
make Congress liable for all the laws it passes. That is a contract 
that works, and I am proud it is one I have kept.
  Mr. Speaker, Oregonians do not need a phony contract with big 
promises; they want solutions. They want Representatives they can 
trust, not people who try to sell them faulty promises. They want 
Representatives who will represent them, not special, wealthy 
interests. They do not want people who try to turn back the clock to 
voodoo economics.
  It does not take a math wizard to figure out this contract is long on 
rhetoric and short on common sense.
  Citizens for Tax Justice has called this ``The Sequel From the GOP 
Witch Doctors Who Busted the Budget: `More Tax Cut Sorcery'.''

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