[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1910]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 CONTRACT SILENT ON MIDDLE-CLASS ISSUES

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Madam Speaker, tomorrow when people are passing out the 
grades for the first 50 days of this Congress, ask yourselves this 
question: How can it be that we have met for 50 days and cast nearly 
150 votes and yet we have not passed a single amendment that addresses 
jobs, incomes, health care, education, or job training?
  Madam Speaker, these issues are central to the lives of working 
middle-class families. Yet the Contract on America has been silent on 
each and every one of these issues. Instead, the Republicans in this 
House have voted to pull 100,000 police officers off the street, 
protect free gifts from lobbyists, slash Social Security and Medicare, 
and they have even tried to add another $50 billion to star wars.
  In their rush to extremism, the Gingrich Revolution seems to have 
forgotten the values of working middle-class families. And their 
contract has not made a dime's worth of difference on these issues that 
really matter to people.

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