[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 30 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1764]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


              PROGRESS REPORT ON THE CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. GINGRICH asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GINGRICH. Mr. Speaker, this is day 43 of our effort to pass the 
Contract With America, and, as I did a few weeks ago, we finished 
passing yesterday the six bills which are our effort to meet contract 
No. 2 which says stop violent criminals, let us get tough with an 
effective, believable, and timely death penalty for violent offenders. 
Let us also reduce crime by building more prisons, making sentences 
longer, putting more police on the street.
  We believe we have met No. 2 with the passage of those six.
  So I am now going to have a second hole punched in the card. Over the 
next 57 days, as we finish it up, I will be back again.

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