[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 44 (Thursday, March 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H2898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REPUBLICANS AND TERM LIMITS

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in a move that demonstrates 
the gulf between the rhetoric about the Contract With America and the 
reality of what it means for Americans, the majority ducked a vote on 
term limits.
  And they did it for a simple reason. They know they are not serious 
about it.
  For all of their talk about citizen legislators, their term limit 
bill is really about one thing--protecting their power. So I say to the 
Republicans: Stop hustling the American people. If what you really want 
is term limits and not limitless headlines, send us a real bill.
  If letting the American people decide every 2 years who should 
represent them doesn't sit too well with Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Armey and 
Mr. McCollum--three term limit supporters who have now been citizen 
legislators for a total of 44 years--then I say give us a real term 
limits bill.
  Make it retroactive.
  If you want the headlines, then clean out your desks and head for 
home the day we pass the bill. When the citizen legislators who have 
been here for decades show me they are that serious about term limits, 
then I am with you.


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