[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 137 (Tuesday, September 27, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 27, 1994]
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                 COMMENTS ON GOP CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, today future Minority Leader 
Gingrich will blindfold the Republican candidates and bring them to the 
Capitol and get them to sign a contract for the future of America. 
Unfortunately, not only does this contract signal the bankruptcy of 
Republican ideas, but it foretells the bankruptcy of this Nation. The 
last time we embarked on this program of tax cuts for the rich, 
increased defense spending, and no way to pay for it, this country 
accumulated $4 trillion in debt, $1 trillion in new debt of the 
eighties. Not only were the eighties bankrupt, but so was the Nation at 
the end of the eighties.
  I would hope that Americans would read this contract before they 
decide whether they will want to sign it or not. We fully expect the 
Republican candidates for office to sign this contract, because tonight 
at a fund-raiser they will be paid for signing this contract. They will 
be paid by the special interests who seek to have these tax cuts for 
their narrow special interests and their wealthy friends.
  Today the Republicans converge on the Capitol to sign a contract, a 
contract to increase the deficit by at least $120 billion, a contract 
to cut Social Security, a contract to reduce Medicare coverage for the 
elderly, a contract that provides tax cuts for the rich and $1 trillion 
in debt for the middle class.
  We have seen this before, ladies and gentlemen of this Chamber, and 
we have seen this before, I say to our constituents throughout the 
country, and that was the 1980's, when we tripled the debt of this 
country and we lost our ability to compete overseas.
  Now, the Republicans are obviously doing this because they have run 
out of ideas to combat what has taken place here with the real deficit 
reduction of the Clinton economic proposal of last year, where none of 
them, none of them, supported what now has turned out to be deficit 
reduction far beyond the expectations of the critics of that plan and 
even the supporters of that plan.
  I would hope that America would not follow the three blind mice of 
the Republican Party.

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