[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 176 (Wednesday, November 8, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H11832-H11833]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      ELECTION RESULTS SHOW AMERICANS REJECT REPUBLICAN REVOLUTION

  (Mr. RICHARDSON asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. RICHARDSON. Mr. Speaker, I notice the other side is not talking 
about the elections yesterday. Voters around the country yesterday put 
the brakes on the Republican revolution with this message: ``You are 
going too far and too fast to the right, and we are sending you a 
message to cool it.'' Voters want the mainstream rather than the 
extreme; the center, rather than the right.

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  A broad cross-section of Americans yesterday rejected Republican 
plans to cut Medicare and education for a tax giveaway and gutting the 
environment. The American people want to go forward, not to the right. 
As a start, the majority should stop playing default politics with the 
debt limit and the country's financial stability.

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