[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 19 (Tuesday, January 31, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A LEGISLATIVE FOUR CORNERS

  (Mr. HAYWORTH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HAYWORTH, Mr. Speaker, instead of coming out and going head to 
head on the issues, a lot of our Democratic colleagues have decided 
instead to take the air out of the ball and go into a sort of 
legislative four corners.
  You remember the four corners, don't you, Mr. Speaker? It is a stall-
and-delay tactic that inferior basketball teams would often employ 
against better teams. The idea being if the better team never had the 
ball they couldn't score. Of course, that was before college basketball 
instituted the time clock.
  And that is what we are seeing on the other side of the aisle, as 
Democrats offer one frivolous amendment after another in an attempt to 
derail not only the unfunded mandates bill, but the entire Contract 
With America.
  I am afraid I really do not understand the Democrats' tactics. Do 
they really think their legislative four corners will make the American 
people yearn for bigger government? Will it somehow make Americans 
wistful for higher taxes?
  Mr. Speaker, to my friends on the other side I say come on, get in 
the game.


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