[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 140 (Friday, September 30, 1994)]
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                   MORE ON THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, I join my Democrat, Republican, and 
Independent friends and colleagues in congratulating Newt Gingrich and 
the Republican Party for setting forth a specific plan and promises for 
when he becomes Speaker of the House. Instead of the usual 30-second 
attack Clinton ad which asserts that our opponents will go to heaven or 
hell depending on their voting record, Mr. Gingrich and Republicans 
have crafted a specific contract. Yet many paranoid Democrats are 
already whining. They prefer the politics of half-truths over 
substance.
  The contract which they have been whining about calls for votes on a 
balanced budget amendment, term limits, line item veto, cutting 
congressional staff by one-third and reforming welfare.
  The Democrats prefer what we have now, even with control of the 
House, control of the Senate, control of the White House, we have a 
$200 billion deficit, no middle-class tax cut, no health care reform, 
foreign policy triumphs in Bosnia, North Korea, Haiti, and Somalia. If 
that is what they want, I say to the American people ask a Democrat 
Congressman for a copy of the contract and ask them to show it to you.
  Mr. Speaker, the choice is clear.

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