[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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     DESPITE PARTISAN ATTACKS, THE PEOPLE WILL SPEAK ON NOVEMBER 8

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, this is for me at least deja vu all over 
again. Two years ago I had the privilege of being the instrumentality 
used by the people of the 10th District of Ohio to rid themselves of 
representation that they did not feel was very good, that did not give 
them the kind of honest representation in the House they wanted.
  What we have seen now with the big dogs coming out first, and 
everybody else throwing on their smear, is the same exact kind of 
campaign that I went through. What you are going to see is all kinds of 
distortions of the record, and it is not about, it is not about 
representative government, it is about the kinds of things that happen 
before a group that has had a stranglehold on power for 40 years 
finally gives it up.
  It has only begun. The attacks have only begun. The dirt, the poison, 
the grotesqueness of the attacks, have only just begun. Just see the 
pitch go up and up and up and up as money on this side, money, tries to 
outdo the reality of representing people on this side.
  This House does not belong to the Democratic Party any more than it 
belongs to the Republican Party. It belongs to the people of the United 
States of America, and they are the ones who will speak on November 8.

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