[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 1, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


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            A DISPLAY OF COMITY IN THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, this morning Speaker Gingrich invited Vice 
President Gore to meet with the Republican Conference on the subject of 
reinventing the Government. He stood right here at this lectern on the 
Republican side and talked for nearly an hour about making Government 
customer-friendly and constituent-responsive. He talked about the old 
order and the new order. He talked about listening to employees and 
bringing them in on the decisionmaking. He talked about cutting 
redtape, reducing the bureaucracy, and changing the procurement 
process.
  We on the Republican side found that we have much in common with the 
Vice President. We share much of his goal and his vision.
  I congratulate Speaker Gingrich on inviting the Vice President to 
engage in a bipartisan dialog. I hope that Members on both sides of the 
aisle can follow this example set by Speaker Gingrich and the Vice 
President. I hope that the sniping ends. It is always easy to build 
yourself up at the expense of the institution, but I hope that we do 
what the Vice President and Speaker Gingrich did today. We have much in 
common. We have much to accomplish, and we can do it together.

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