[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 14 (Tuesday, January 24, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H556]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ON THE STATE OF THE UNION

  (Mr. WALKER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALKER. Mr. Speaker, in the midst of a good deal of pettiness 
that has taken place on the House floor today, my Republican colleagues 
and I look forward to welcoming the President of the United States to 
the Chamber tonight to deliver his view of the State of the Union. It 
is most beneficial at the beginning of the legislative year to hear 
what the President has to say about where we should be going as a 
Nation and what his program is for the upcoming year.
  We would hope that the President would reference what the American 
people said in November in the way of approving a new Congress, because 
they said specifically at that time that the Contract With America was 
something that they believe should be a part of the national agenda.
  So some of the way that I will measure and I think a number of my 
colleagues will measure the President's remarks tonight is how much of 
the agenda of the Contract With America does the President set forward 
in his speech this morning. Where is he willing to cooperate with us in 
moving the Nation ahead. We are hopeful that there will be a large area 
of cooperation between the President and this Congress so that we can 
in fact move a national agenda and get away from pettiness and 
partisanship.


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