[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 26 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1472]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONGRATULATIONS TO HARD-WORKING CONTRACT WITH AMERICA SUPPORTERS

  (Mr. DREIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DREIER. Mr. Speaker, I think it is 36 days ago the 104th Congress 
convened, and on opening day we passed nine major reforms. We turned 
around the way this place does business by eliminating committees and 
making this place more accountable and deliberative in many ways. We 
passed the Congressional Accountability Act. In the last 4 weeks we 
have passed legislation that makes it much tougher to impose unfunded 
mandates on States, the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, 
line item veto authority for the President, which is what he has asked 
for, and we are now in the midst of working on a wide range of 
legislation which has been discussed for years that will finally focus 
a little more attention on the victim than the perpetrator.
  It seems to me that, if we look at what is talking place over the 
past few weeks, we clearly have been able to proceed effectively in a 
bipartisan way, gaining support from Democrats for these Republican 
initiatives in the Contract With America, and I would simply like to 
extend congratulations to those who have worked so hard to make it 
happen.

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