[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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               READ THE FINE PRINT ON REPUBLICAN CONTRACT

  (Mr. KREIDLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KREIDLER. Mr. Speaker, Republicans are putting on a show today, 
to try to revive their tired budget performance from the 1980's.
  The script is familiar: let us cut taxes, increase spending, and then 
balance the budget.
  It is deja vu all over again.
  This is one contract where the American people need to read the fine 
print. But they cannot, because it is not there.
  This contract does not tell you how they are going to cut spending.
  This contract does not tell you how they are going to balance the 
budget.
  And this contract does not tell you how they are going to finance 
their trillion-dollar tax giveaway.
  This is a contract to bring back the failed Republican policies of 
the past--smoke and mirrors, rosy scenarios, voodoo economics.
  We have been down that road before.
  Those failed policies tripled the national debt on the backs of the 
American middle class.
  There is an old saying--

     Fool me once, shame on you;
     Fool me twice, shame on me.

  The American people will not let the Republicans fool them this time.

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