[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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         GOP AGREEMENT JUST A CON, NOT A CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. WISE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WISE. Mr. Speaker, both political parties are capable of doing 
silly things at different times. I am trying to figure out exactly what 
it is that has offended me about the so-called contract with America. I 
have come up with a couple of reasons.
  First of all, it offends me that grown men and women think they have 
to come to Washington to sign a contract to tell their constituents 
what it is their going to do. We are supposed to listen to our 
constituents and get our contracts there at home, not here.
  Second, those who come saying they want to change the way things are 
done around here are not telling their constituents that by virtue of 
their coming to sign the contract, they get to go tonight to a 
Washington fund-raiser to sit with the very special interests they are 
attacking and pick up a check to take home. That is not changing 
things, that is just picking up change.
  The third thing is they are ignoring history, the history of the 
situation. This is what is in the contract: the supply-side economics 
that resulted in increased defense spending; tax cuts, basically for 
the wealthy; that is in the contract. What you do not see in the fine 
print is the deficit getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
  The reality of the situation is this is not a contract for America, 
it is just simply a con. I resent it today.

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