[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H1400-H1401]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NEWEST WASHINGTON BUZZWORD
(Mr. BASS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I guess the new buzzword we are going to hear
now from the other side of the aisle is going to be the use of the word
``extremist.'' Everything we do is going to be called extremist. I
would only ask that we return to the issues that we have been talking
about here in Congress for the last 14 months, balancing our Nation's
budget for our children and our grandchildren. Extremist is passing a
welfare reform bill that encourages work and holds families together.
Extremist is preserving, protecting and improving the Medicare system
for our senior citizens. Extremist is giving the States more control
over Medicaid. Extremist is sending power and money and influence back
to State and local authorities and citizens of this country, extremist.
Mr. Speaker, let us spend the next few months talking about our
Nation's hopes and not its fears. Let us make America proud of its
elected officials once again.
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GOP AGENDA HOSTILE TO MIDDLE AMERICA
(Mr. MILLER of California asked and was given permission to address
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, it is no wonder that the
Republican program for the last 14 months is so far away from the needs
and the hopes and the aspirations of America's working families. When
you consider at the end of last year when the Republicans came together
to discuss how they were doing and what they were going to do this
year, one of their honored speakers was Al Dunlop, a man who went to
Scott Paper Co. and 2 years later fired thousands of workers with
little or no notice and walked away with $100 million in his pocket. He
advised the Republican caucus to forget the working-class issues, they
did not matter.
Well, they matter to millions of Americans, to millions of Americans
who are worried about losing their job, and with that losing their
health care; about losing their job, and with that the ability to pay
for their children's education. And what do we see cuts in education
for their children. We see cuts in student loans for their children. We
see them trying to keep the health care bill that would make health
care portable from one employer to another from coming to the floor.
What we see is an agenda that is outright hostile to middle America and
to the working families of this country.
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