[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 24 (Tuesday, February 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1293]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            ANOTHER CONTRACT WITH AMERICA ITEM PASSES HOUSE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minutes and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, imagine going to the grocery store to buy 
your daily fruit, vegetables, and meat, and when you go through the 
counter the clerk reaches over and sticks some caviar in your grocery 
cart. And you say, ``I don't want any caviar.'' And he says, ``Tough, 
you want your meat and potatoes; you have to buy my caviar. And if get 
too sensitive, I am going to throw in some Twinkies.''
  Well, that is what the Congress has been doing to the American people 
and their President for too many years. But as of yesterday, with the 
passing of the line-item veto, we, the American people, can have our 
President stop it.
  Item three on the Contract With America has now passed the House. 
Call your Senator, ask him or her to support the line-item veto, and 
then we can have that lean, green, grocery shopping machine that we all 
want. Cut out the fat, Mr. Speaker.


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