[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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          WHY DO DEMOCRATS DISLIKE THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA?

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, I was thinking about it this morning as I was 
running on The Mall, what, what is it that the critics of our contract 
with America, what it is actually that they do not like?
  Maybe it is the balanced budget part that says that we as a Congress 
are going to have to balance our books the same way that we balance our 
books as persons, as individuals, that companies have to balance books, 
that States and municipalities have to, maybe that is the part they do 
not like. No, they probably do not like that.
  It is probably the term limit, that is the part they do not like, the 
part where we are going to vote on terms limit. I can understand that 
because let us face it, their own Speaker has sued his own constituents 
to say that we are not going to have term limits. So perhaps that is 
it, maybe that is the part they do not like.
  Let me tell them something I do not like. Maybe this is why they do 
not like it. It does not have something that addresses campaign finance 
reform, and I would like to see some real campaign finance reform in 
our contract with America. It does not have that.
  But now what the good news is, is that is all under an open rule. 
That means that I can represent the people of northeastern Ohio, just 
the same way as the people of Chicago, or the people of Los Angeles, or 
the people of northern Washington can be represented as well.

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