[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 139 (Thursday, September 29, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 29, 1994]
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                 COMMENTS ON GOP CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. FAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Speaker, on Tuesday the Republicans held a giant pep 
rally on the Capitol steps to show their party unity and their support 
for their leadership. There they very publicly unveiled and signed the 
Republican leadership's contract on the American people.
  Republican challengers traveled from as far away as California to 
publicly sign their loyalty to the Republican leadership. Incumbents, 
however, signed in private. Nobody knows how many of them actually put 
their name on the line. There was no publicity, no cameras.
  The pledge they signed, those who did, indicated openness in 
government would be their watchword. We are now hoping that the 
Republican leadership will release names of all those who signed, not 
just who said they might sign ahead of time.
  Now, in press reports we are hearing about people backing down with 
codicils and caveats, and people who actually did not bother to show up 
and did not, therefore, follow through on their commitment to sign it. 
This is an opportunity for the American people to know where people 
really stand. So we are hopeful that the American people will soon know 
who it is who believes that the Republican Party, in the midst of an 
election, should once again sign up for trillion dollar deficits and 
cuts in Social Security and Medicare. Perhaps those who are not 
publicly on the list at the moment have come to realize, as we 
Democrats have, that this contract is really a con on the American 
people.

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