[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 15 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H602]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 DEMOCRATS ADJUSTING TO MINORITY STATUS

  (Mr. LaHOOD asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I must say that the Democrats are adjusting 
well to their new minority status. I thought it would take them at 
least several months to completely marginalize themselves in this 
Chamber, but they appear to have accomplished this in record time.
  While Republicans have busied ourselves at making good on out 
promises to the American people to end unfunded mandates and pass a 
balanced budget amendment, the Democrats have put all of their energy 
into creating an atmosphere of cynicism and mistrust.
  But the delay tactics of the Democrats will not prevent us from 
working the will of the American people. We Republicans will pass an 
unfunded mandates bill, and, we will pass a balanced budget amendment.
  Someone once noted that cynicism is frustrated idealism. Last 
November, the Democrats witnessed the total repudiation of their 
ideals. Now, they have reduced themselves to a cynical display of 
class-envy and obstructionism.


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