[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H555]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


  A REDEFINITION OF THE REPUBLICAN ROLE IN GOVERNMENT FOR THE LAST 40 
                                 YEARS

  (Mr. WILLIAMS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. WILLIAMS. Mr. Speaker, I say to my colleagues that for 2\1/2\ 
months now Republicans have been engaged, as they were in 1-minutes 
this morning, in trying to convince either themselves or the Democrats 
or perhaps the American people that for the first time in 40 years the 
Republicans are in the majority in this Congress.
  Well, during those 40 years, we had the following Republicans as 
President: Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Bush--all during those 
40 years. For more than half of those 40 years Republicans were elected 
to the highest office in the land. And just taking former President 
Reagan, during three-fourths of his administration, Republicans 
controlled the United States Senate.
  Mr. Speaker, my purpose here is to do nothing but to lay the facts 
out. Republicans have not been excluded from the Government for the 
past 40 years; they have run it for more than half of that time.

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