[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 141 (Monday, October 3, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 3, 1994]
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            REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP WILL END POLITICS AS USUAL

  (Ms. DUNN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DUNN. Mr. Speaker, if the American people decide to elect a 
Republican majority in the House this November, we will end politics as 
usual.
  On the very first day of the new Congress, the Republican majority 
would immediately pass the following reforms and write them into the 
rules of the House of Representatives that determine how it conducts 
its business for the whole 2 years.
  One, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country to apply 
equally to the Congress.
  Two, select a major independent auditing firm to conduct a 
comprehensive audit of Congress' own finances for waste, for fraud, and 
for abuse.
  Three, cut the number of House committees and cut committee staffs by 
one-third.
  Four, limit the terms of all committee chairmen.
  Five, ban the casting of proxy or ghost voting in committees.
  Six, require all committee meetings and hearings to be open to the 
public, the Sunshine Act.
  Seven, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass any tax increase.
  Eight, require zero-based budgeting which means no more accounting 
gimmicks to call a special increase a spending increase.
  Mr. Speaker, give us a chance to govern this House of 
Representatives. We will change the way business is done in the U.S. 
Congress.

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