[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: September 30, 1994]
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             REPUBLICAN CONTRACT IS SAME OLD SONG AND DANCE

  (Mr. DURBIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. Speaker, in the greatest miscalculation since Adolf 
Hitler made it clear he did not want a wake-up call on D-day, the House 
Republicans made an announcement this week that they were going to 
enter into a contract.
  When we look at the specifics, it is warmed over Reagan-Bush 
economics, a trillion dollars more for the national debt, and they 
promise tax cuts for everybody. We have heard that song and dance 
before.
  If we take a look at those who showed up to sign the contract, it is 
very interesting. Not one Senate Republican would walk across the 
Rotunda to sign this contract. When the House incumbent Republicans 
were to sign it, they did it in private. They did not want the public 
to see which Members of the House caucus on the Republican side refused 
to sign it. Now they come tell us they are for open government.
  We would like to see a list of the names, which Republican candidates 
and which Republican incumbents were willing to sign on to this 
contract which has been universally scorned?
  Name names, Newt, and do it now.

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