[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11980]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           TUESDAY'S ELECTION

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Mr. Speaker, the conservative revolution in this country is 
alive and well. Tuesday bore that out once again when we had 
conservative Republicans win elections all over the country. We 
retained for the first time ever, ever that a single party has held a 
majority in the legislature in New Jersey for three successive 
elections. We have the largest number of seats in the Virginia 
legislature in fully 120 years.
  And not only that, but a Republican actually won in Kentucky. 
Governor Forgy campaigned on smaller government, tax cuts, death 
penalty, conservative government and on election night, he said: 
``Today Kentucky said yes to smaller, more efficient, more conservative 
government.'' It was simply that it was a Democrat masquerading as a 
Republican.
  Now I want to share with my colleagues something from the Washington 
Post of a couple of days ago where they have said, they asked the same 
questions about President Clinton that we have been asking all year. 
They said:

       He has walked away from the welfare bill he sent to 
     Congress last year. Perhaps he will say he did not mean to 
     send up last year's health care reform proposals either. It 
     becomes increasingly difficult to know what this President 
     stands for or whether he stands for anything.

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