[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 2 (Thursday, January 5, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H132]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         A SUCCESSFUL BEGINNING

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Yesterday was a truly exciting day not only for 
people all across America but especially for the people of the First 
Congressional District of Florida. I think like people across the 
country, we have become too cynical about our Government. We live in a 
cynical age in American politics, an age where we are viewed as an 
arrogant capital. But yesterday that arrogance was stripped away as we 
kept the promise that we made throughout this campaign. It was a 
campaign not about ideology, not about being a right-wing fanatical or 
a left-wing liberal, it was about commonsense approaches to our 
problems that are facing us. We addressed the issues, we had a 
commonsense approach to make Congress abide by the same laws that we 
make businesses abide by, and by enacting commonsense reform that is 
going to allow this Congress once and for all to move into the 21st 
century, creating a second American revolution that will not only build 
on the Contract With America but the original contract established in 
the Constitution of the United States.


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