[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 2 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H131]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     DELIVERING ON PROMISED REFORM

  (Mr. SHADEGG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHADEGG. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was truly a historic day. For me 
it was a personal privilege to represent the people of the Fourth 
Congressional District of Arizona and to be here with my 9-year-old son 
and my 13-year-old daughter. Yesterday was historic for many reasons. 
We set the tone for a very different U.S. Congress. We proved that the 
American people asked to trust us and that we could be trusted, that we 
promised reforms and that we delivered on those reforms.
  The people in my district thought it an outrage that the laws we 
impose on the rest of America do not apply to the Congress. Yesterday 
we applied those laws to the U.S. Congress. The people of America 
thought it an outrage that our committee and our committee staffs had 
grown bloated and oversized and we cut those committees and we cut 
those committee staffs. We began the premise and the process of 
fulfilling the promises we had made to the American people. In the next 
99 days, we will carry forward real reforms, reforms which will truly 
change the lives of Americans.
  I invite the people of the Nation to look in and to join us in this 
great and historic process.

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