[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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                  CONTRACTS AND PLEDGES SHOULD BE KEPT

  (Mr. STENHOLM asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. STENHOLM. Mr. Speaker, we are talking a lot about contracts today 
and I could not agree more with the gentleman who said that contracts 
and pledges should be kept. I found it very ironic that yesterday on 
the agriculture reorganization bill, the first recorded vote that this 
body, after a contract has been signed for reform and making changes, 
that 171 of my colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle, and 6 on 
this side voted against reform and change.
  As the chairman of the committee that has worked very hard for over 2 
years with the previous administration as well as this administration, 
I found it very ironic that on the first recorded vote of keeping a 
pledge for change and reform and saving money, we vote different than 
what we pledge.
  I say in a very, very sincere way: Whatever we do or say in this 
campaign on whatever issues we say, we must be prepared to come to this 
floor and vote the same way that we say.

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