[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       REPUBLICANS MAKING PROGRESS ON THEIR CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, as the gentleman from Oklahoma [Mr. Watts] 
pointed out, we do have a Contract With America. We are working very 
hard.
  I want to say it was a bipartisan contract in the last few weeks. The 
line-item veto came out of the Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight with a 30-to-11 bipartisan margin.
  The Shays Act to apply to Congress every law which applies to the 
rest of the country passed with a huge bipartisan margin.
  The victory last night for the constitutional amendment to require a 
balanced budget was a bipartisan victory.
  I want to thank all of the reform Democrats who are joining us again 
and again in doing good bipartisan things. We do have a contract. We 
are going to keep it.
  A friend of mine gave me this this morning earlier and said, ``Why 
don't you punch in this contract that you always carry, why don't you 
take out the very first one.'' I want to punch a hole to indicate one 
is down. We will be back for nine more.

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