[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 37 (Tuesday, February 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H2319-H2320]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                   HONORING OUR CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, day after day after day they come to the well 
of the House, the four horsemen of the liberal apocalypse: demagogery, 
distortion, obstruction, and hypocrisy.
  The doomsday prophets of the lost battalion of the left, with 
chilling contempt and complete disregard for the will and wisdom of the 
American people, they ignore the call for change that sounded across 
this Nation last November. The question becomes: How 
[[Page H2320]] long will they remain dead to the urgent pleas for a new 
direction and blind to the overwhelming evidence against the failed 
liberal agenda of the welfare state? How long will they pay headlong 
allegiance to a philosophy of unlimited government and limited personal 
freedom, more spending, higher deficits, and more bureaucratic 
regulation of our lives, our economy, our future? How long will they go 
on trivializing and reducing the national debate to its lowest common 
denominator? How long will they persist with the politics of fear and 
with scare tactics calculated to incite class warfare and divide 
Americans one against another?
  It is time to end the futile mission of the lost battalion of the 
left and honor our Contract With America.

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