[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]


                A GOOD BEGINNING TO CONGRESSIONAL REFORM

  (Mr. GANSKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GANSKE. Mr. Speaker, yesterday was a beginning. We ended 
Congress' special exemption from the laws that they have passed for 
others. We reduced committees and subcommittees and committee staff. We 
determined that budgets should be done with zero baselines, with honest 
numbers. We opened up the House books.
  Most of these bills passed with bipartisan support. It was the 
beginning of keeping promises that were made. I look forward to working 
with my Democratic colleagues to balance the budget and to reform the 
welfare state. This way we can keep our promises and our Contract With 
America.

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