[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 33 (Wednesday, February 22, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H1975]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                CONTRACT WITH AMERICA A CAMPAIGN GIMMICK

  (Mr. DOGGETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Speaker, I came here to serve the families of the 
people of Austin, TX, not to serve as a contractor for Newt Gingrich. 
This contract is nothing more than a campaign gimmick, and if it is 
fully imposed, it will be the people of Austin, TX, and across this 
country who suffer.
  The contract rejects community policing and crime prevention programs 
that work in Texas. It would turn over our health and safety standards 
to the tobacco companies and the other special interests. And the cost 
of this contract? At more than $1 trillion, it threatens our financial 
security.
  Some of the concepts in the contract are good, but I learned long 
before going to law school from my parents that you do not listen to 
the salesperson's hype, you read the fine print, the little bitty words 
on the back of the contract. And when you do that, you find out that 
this so-called Contract With America is devastating to middle-class 
families across this country.
  This contract goes too far, too fast, too extreme. It can and should 
be rejected.

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