[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 26 (Thursday, February 29, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H1620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       WORKING FAMILIES NEED HELP

  (Ms. DeLAURO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, now that the Republican Party has 
discovered working America, Newt Gingrich and his team are frantically 
working their agenda. They are desperate. The Contract With America has 
failed. Voters in the Republican Presidential primaries do not want the 
Gingrich agenda of the last 14 months. They demand that the concerns of 
working families be the priority in Washington.
  But a tiger cannot change his stripes. The Republican leadership is 
having a hard time crafting an agenda that deals honestly with the 
concerns of working men and women.
  Will the Newt Gingrich Republican agenda support education, protect 
pensions, raise the minimum wage? No. According to the majority leader, 
Dick Armey, who is taking over the day-to-day operations of the House 
from Speaker Gingrich, once again the new Republican agenda will be 
topped by a tax break for the wealthiest Americans.
   Mr. Speaker, this is not what working families need. They need help 
to pay their bills, send their kids to college and save for retirement.
  My Republican colleagues wanted to offer them the same old failed 
policies of the past in a brand-new package. The American people 
deserve better.

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