[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 59 (Thursday, March 30, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H3984-H3985]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          TERM LIMITS IS A REPUBLICAN STRATEGY, NOT A PROGRAM

  (Mr. BRYANT of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  [[Page H3985]] Mr. BRYANT of Texas. Mr. Speaker, earlier in the 1-
minute period today we heard a number of Republicans get up and boast 
extravagantly about the number of Republicans that voted for term 
limits last night and boasted that it was something like 85 percent of 
all the Republicans who did it.
  When you look at the term limits proposal that was offered by the 
gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell], to limit terms to 12 years, and 
make them apply to Members who are serving here now, how many 
Republicans voted for that? The answer is less than 1 out of 4 voted 
for that. If I was a Republican, and I was busy cutting student loans 
and cutting school lunches so that I could cut taxes for the wealthiest 
Americans; I would be in here talking about term limits, too, because 
you see term limits is not the Republican program, it is the Republican 
strategy: Talk term limits while you are busy eliminating the ability 
of middle-class Americans to grab themselves by their bootstraps and 
lift themselves up to a better way of life than they have had in the 
past. Term limits is a Republican strategy, not the Republican program.
  The program remains what it always has been, make the rich richer and 
the poor poorer and the middle class have a harder time catching up.

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