[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H308]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SENT A CLEAR MESSAGE

  (Mr. CHRISTENSEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHRISTENSEN. Mr. Speaker, the American people sent a clear 
message to us in November. They elected a Republican majority to change 
the way Congress does business.
  After 40 years of liberal big government, big spending politics, the 
American people said enough is enough. They want us to start working in 
a bipartisan fashion to solve the problems that Americans are facing 
each and every day.
  We need to pass the unfunded mandates legislation. We need to pass a 
balanced budget amendment with a three-fifths supermajority.
  Some do not seem to have gotten the message. They are going on about 
book deals and ghost historians, but they are missing the message. I 
have heard the people's message. They want us to change the culture of 
Washington.
  It is too bad that some just want to change the subject.

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