[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 32 (Tuesday, February 21, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1911]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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  DEMOCRATS SHOULD GET ON BOARD AND HELP CHANGE AMERICA, NOT CONTINUE 
                            FINGER-POINTING

  (Mr. SCARBOROUGH asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SCARBOROUGH. Madam Speaker, I could not help but hear a former 
speaker up here talk about the Republicans rushing to extremism in the 
first 50 days of our Contract With America.
  Madam Speaker, the fact of the matter is if they are viewing what we 
have been doing for the first 50 days a rush to extremism, that 
explains better than any poll will ever explain why they are now in the 
minority and we are in the majority.
  The overwhelming majority of Americans wanted a balanced budget 
amendment. We gave them one. The overwhelming majority of Americans 
wanted a line-item veto. We gave them one. The overwhelming majority of 
Americans wanted this Congress to live by the same laws that they make 
everybody else live by. We did it. We will keep doing it the next 50 
days.
  If all they can do is compare us to Hitler and Goebbels and everybody 
else in their rush to extremism, because they have no new ideas, so be 
it.
  Madam Speaker, this train has left the station. If they want to get 
on board and help us make real change in this country, we will accept 
their help, but they are not helping by rushing to extremism and 
pointing fingers. We have to make a difference. That is why we were 
sent here.


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