[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 64 (Thursday, April 6, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4337-H4338]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         PATCH UP THE CONTRACT

  (Mr. GUTIERREZ asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTIERREZ. Mr. Speaker, over the past 100 days, Mr. Gingrich has 
had his fun taking out his hole puncher and putting a few holes in his 
copy of the Contract With America.
  Well, I never saw what the big deal was.
  [[Page H4338]] The way I see it, that contract was already full of 
holes.
  Remember the Republican tax plan or their balanced budget amendment? 
Right where you thought they would tell you how to pay for it, there 
was a big, gaping hole.
  And they had special kinds of holes for different people.
  If you are a working family, trying to raise your kids, there is a 
sinkhole for your wages to fall into, but if you are looking for a 
capital gains cut, there is a nice loophole for you.
  And you know those blackholes in outer space, those things that stuff 
gets sucked into and nothing comes out of? It turns out you do not need 
the Hubble telescope to see them.
  Because the Republicans' cuts in home heating assistance for the 
elderly and child nutrition for the country's babies are a blackhole 
that is going to pull people into poverty and pain where they will 
never be heard from again.
  So, Mr. Speaker, instead of getting a hole puncher, you should have 
used something to patch up the holes that were already in your contract 
from day one.

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