[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 65 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4420-H4421]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    JOIN US IN MAKING AMERICA STRONG

  (Mr. SHADEGG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHADEGG. Mr. Speaker, this is a new day in America, a great new 
day. It is a day where we talk about promises made and promises kept.
  The speaker before me made the point this is not a contract that was 
partisan. It is a contract which captures the American people's dreams 
and begins the process of starting change in America.
  The eight first-day reforms received an average of 397 votes; 160 of 
my colleagues on the other side joined us in those reforms. The average 
of the bills in the Contract With America received 316 votes. That is 
more than 70 of our Democratic colleagues who joined us in passing 
those reforms.
  Our predecessors promised to end welfare as we know it. They promised 
a middle-class tax cut. They promised to begin making Government 
smaller and more responsive, and they failed over and over again.
  The American people want change. The Contract With America delivered 
change. It is the beginning of a tremendous process.
  [[Page H4421]] Now, the challenge ahead of us is to balance the 
budget. I invite the American people, I invite my colleagues to join us 
in that challenge. It is immoral to continue to put the burden of the 
debt and the deficit they created in the last 40 years on our children 
and our grandchildren.
  Join us, I urge you. We are going forward to make America strong and 
better and to give it back to the people, the people who own it, the 
people who made it, the people whose taxes make it run and who believe 
in this agenda and in us.


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